50's style wedding dresses?

mellymeep

I got my dress from Unique Vintage, thier are some lovely 50s style designs on there, it arrived really quickly and the dress is great quality for being so cheap, would whole heartedly reccomend them.

moggylover

Sheesh! I wish I hadn't looked at the prices on the vintage site! My mother got married in 1956 in a lovely lace ballerina length dress and she cut it up to make the covers for my moses basket about 15 years ago!! :eek::eek::eek::eek:

It was a beautiful dress: I cried when she cut it up:o

Maydot

sezzie24 wrote: »

After frannyann showed me the beautiful Candy Anthony dresses I desperately want one! They are so expensive though. I emailed a friend who is a dressmaker and she said she can make me one for £1000 which is still way too much for me.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270527973693&_trkparms=tab%3DWatching#ht_2811wt_1165

The above is a gorgeous dress, again courtesy of frannyann but I'm after more of a netting skirt. Edit: Just realised the above dress is a honeypie boutique dress. I'd be interested if anyone has used them to see what the quality is like because they are very reasonably priced.

This is the shop website for this seller http://www.honeypieboutique.co.uk/ourshop/cat_230553-50s-Wedding-Dresses.html

Seems to be a lot more choice there. I have emailed her as she is literally just down the road from me and I thought my daughter might be interested in one of her dresses as a bridesmaid dress. She replied very quickly and seems able to customise orders. It is an online shop only though so holds no stock (I'm guessing orders are made up abroad). Her Ebay feedback is excellent which is always a good sign!

hellokitty08

I only managed to get to the Candy Anthony store yesterday as my bride decided she was to tired to make it to Viviens of holloway. The dresses where lovely, but I am sure you could get them much cheeper if you have the same / similar design done elsewhere. However the staff were lovely, but hopefully the bride has made up her mind on a vintage one we saw earlier in the day.

margaretclare

As someone who lived through that decade and got married for the first time in 1957, the dress in the picture with the red sash is lovely, but it wouldn't have been correct as a wedding dress in the 1950s because of bare shoulders.

It was still considered 'not done' to have bare shoulders in church at that time.

A wedding dress could have been ballerina-length and very full with petticoats underneath, but it would have had sleeves - very likely wrist-length sleeves with a point over the back of the hand. It might have had a fairly low sweetheart-style neckline, but the shoulders and arms would have been covered. Lace over taffeta was very popular.

Any bridal dressmaker will be able to make what you want.

For a register office wedding it was not done to wear a traditional wedding dress - a suit and hat, or a dress and matching coat, with spray of flowers on the shoulder.

fly_dragon_fly

http://www.dollycouture.com/index.php/collection/the-pasadena-1.html this is my fav dolly dress is that more like it was? x

margaretclare

Yes, this is similar. Only I think - a bit longer. Ballerina-length was what we'd now call calf-length - half-way between the knee and the ankle. The dress in the picture is knee-length. Remember it would have had stiff petticoats underneath to make it stand out, so it needed to be a bit longer.

fly_dragon_fly

thats what i thought i bought one that i thought was knee length but it was to short one the back because of the petticoat i know have one that is calf length and when i add the petticoat it should be the perfect length

thats if i use it at all at the moment i need to add a corset to it and i am thinking of getting some sort of lace put over it.

i think i'm going to have two or maybe one and use one for a trash the dress photo shoot

MunchkinKT

Hey Crazy_Girl, thanks for the info + picture. It's great to hear about other people's experiences, it really helps. Can you tell me how much you got charged by customs? I'm on the verge of ordering a Dolly dress and I'm trying to budget for every eventuality.

I'm getting married in just over 2 months and been trying to get a 50s style dress everywhere but most places require 8-10 weeks to make it and I'm running out of time! I'm so excited that Dolly have one in stock they can send out within the next fortnight. They've been really helpful too as were Honeypie Boutique but they couldn't do a dress any quicker than 10 weeks as this is their busiest time!

I'll let you know how it goes. Cheers. Kx

Alison_Funnell

We bought a satin dress from Vivien of Holloway for DDs prom. They are great dresses but you really need to be a bigger girl up top for them to fit well. Other wise the wiring leaves you with hollow areas. If you get my drift.

I think I would be tempted to buy a pattern and make one.