Audrey Hepburn Style Dress

cinderfella

Just a quicke post. Out of curiousity I went onto ebay to see what the s/h value of a wedding dress was. Someone mentioned on another thread that they had a dress they wanted to sell blah blah.
I know material is expensive because I once made some polyester car seat covers (leopard print), so wedding fabric must be sky high cost wise.
If you go onto ebay there is a vintage section under wedding dresses. No doubt all these dresses have only been worn once.
Seems to be the ideal place for securing quality fabric & even a retro dress Audrey Hepburn style.

Scotsbride

try googling 50s style short wedding dresses

MrsMontytobe

Hiya,

My dress is from Lou lou bridal. They start at about £500 and funnily enough one of my friends said it reminded her of Audrey Hepburn in funny girl.

The web site is Lou Lou bridal . co . uk (cos I'm new I'm not allowed to post a link sorry) my dress is LB15 and is lovely and great quality in real life as well as not breaking the bank :j

Leigh x

MrsDrink

Try Donna Lee Designs - she has a dress called Audrey
http://www.donnaleedesigns.co.uk/ (click on collections then diva, hover mouse along the bottom and scroll to Audrey).
(Uk designer as well)

(I have a DLD dress for my wedding - and I can't wait to wear it!)

pin254

hi new to site had to sign up when i saw this tread there is a dress on ebay that comes from bristol think they could have what you are looking for they have very good feedback. seller name is allfordress2006 item number is 270746284698. hope this helps.:)

lynnexxxo

I wanted that sort of dress to, but didn't want to buy online as I couldn't try it on (honeypie boutique, dolly couture etc) are made to order so you can't really return.
I ended up with a dress from Prefection bridal, it was called iris.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/45647173@N02/5960923698/in/photostream/

MissGG

lynne - sorry to hijack the thread but where are your BM dresses and headbands from I love the style of both!

Kellylea

Thank you all so much for your posts I'm going to pour a glass of wine and have a good browse!!! Thank you x x x

74jax

lynnexxxo wrote: »

I wanted that sort of dress to, but didn't want to buy online as I couldn't try it on (honeypie boutique, dolly couture etc) are made to order so you can't really return.
I ended up with a dress from Prefection bridal, it was called iris.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/45647173@N02/5960923698/in/photostream/

That's a gorgeous dress. I'm looking for something along the lines of this thread but something that I can wear again for special occasions (posh meal/going to the races etc). I don't like the idea of just wearing the dress once.

lynnexxxo

MissGG wrote: »

lynne - sorry to hijack the thread but where are your BM dresses and headbands from I love the style of both!

My adult BM dresses were from the Very catalogue, we added the wee sparkly bits ourselves to make them a bit more glam. The flowergirls dresses were from an ebay seller recommend by someone on the forum (can't remember who) but search ebay for huiyunkitty. The dresses were a very reasonable £28 each.

I made the headband myself, it started life as this (from Tesco was about £5) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Andrew-Barton-Flowers-Sparkle-Headband/dp/B0046BP5Y0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1314007637&sr=8-1

I then snipped the ends of and threaded some pearls onto it and twisted it at the ends so they did not fall off. I then added some purple stick on beads (ebay) to the flower and then threads some more beads underneath the flower using jewellery wire (again eBay). I was really easy to do, did not take me longer than a few hours. Plus the raw materials cost less than £10 in total so I knew if it was a diaster it wasn't really that big a deal!