Obviously things can be updated with the right pairings, accessories and shoes, but looking at these individually are like looking at things I wore decades ago. Are puffy sleeves coming back or a bit of puff with a cuff again?
It seemed like HRH Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (thought I’d follow protocol), looked rather matronly in a lot of her outfits this summer at the Royal Ascot. I remember all those outfits linked and blouses and wore them (shiver). My 9th grade dance I wore a Jessica McClintock Gunne Sak dress. Baby blue. I thought I looked stunning.
I loved those Gunne Sax dresses! And now I wonder what I was thinking. But my daughter has a friend with an Etsy vintage shop, and she sells them for big bucks, so if you’ve got one from your high school days, you might want to fund your retirement. Or at least a nice retirement dinner.
I’ve noticed that prairie ruffled sleeve edge thing for about a year. It’s hideous! I saw it in Sweden last summer so the whole world is apparently affected, or infected. It’s like Lucy and Ethel wearing the burlap sacks and thinking they’re fashion.
OTOH houndstooth never went out of fashion and never will!
LOL. I’m not a fashion shopper but was at a department store last week and saw a blouse sleeve I liked, pulled it out and the front was ruffled. I may have said out loud “did that in the 80’s, I’m not going there again.” In the mid-1970s in junior high in my suburban NJ town it was the height of fashion to wear wallabee shoes with Levi’s corduroy pants. I laughed so hard when I saw wallabees in several stores recently.
I walked by a display in a store this week and did a second take. I had that midi skirt (burgundy floral) in 1980. Mine, however wasn’t cheap polyester , it was wool challis and lined…I made it myself and wish I still had it to pass on to some young fashionista.