I recently placed an order from one of my favourite dress makers. Lady V London create amazing 1950s style dresses, suitable for all occasions.
If you know me well from videos or from my main blog , you might know that I have a big love for all things vintage and vintage inspired. If I could wear a dress, little heels, a red lip and pin curls everyday I would (it wouldn't really work in a reception class...boo) however, I love the quality of the Lady V London dresses and try to wear one as often I can.
My collection before this haul consisted of around 4 dresses including one I bought especially for a hen do and one I bought for a wedding. Now I bet you are thinking that four 50s inspired dresses would be enough...well so did I until I got an email. You know one of those we've got 15% off emails which draw you in.
And drawn in I was... Here is what I got.
As you can see I picked up 4 new dresses with my discount code. In this picture we have three "tea dresses" and one dress from the new Lady Volumptuous range. Firstly let's look at the tea dresses.
Yes that's right, my wardrobe is so full of clothes it refused to shut this day ( hashtag sorry not sorry). These three dresses are all what Lady V London call tea dresses. The tree dresses on my size 16/18/20 5ft 7 frame smoothes over all my lunps and bumps on my top half and then blows out into a full skirt which ends up just below the knee...very flattering. The other to note is that all tea dresses have tie backs which helps to show off your curves in a very classy way.
I was unsure which of the many amazing patterns to go for so in the end I picked three of my favourites. I picked the yellow floral number after seeing so much of this shade in the stores. I am not much of a trend follower now...too old to keep up but I do like to dip my toe into fashion from time to time so this way I thought I could do the hip and on trend shade but in my own way.
The other two patterns were picked because I couldn't resist them. The cupcake dress has been on my radar for a while but the last time I saw it online, it was sold out in my size so of course when it was available again, it was coming to mama... After all, I love a good cake.
The red lips pattern was the last of the tea dress gang. As I said at the beginning of this post, if I could wear a red lip every day I would. Sadly that isn't possible so once I saw that I could have red lips in my room at all times, I decided I must order it.
This purple dress is a Lyra dress and it has a cross over bust detail, a tie back and a full skirt. I've already put a bet on that the first time I wear this dress, I shall be twirling round and round to make the dress bellow around me. I picked the purple colour as it is my favourite colour and I have to say its the perfect Cadbury's purple shade. So gorgeous.
With these four new additions to the gang, my Lady V London dress collection now stands at around 8 dresses and I can safely say that it won't be the last order I place. In fact, I currently have my eye on a Phoebe dress from the Lady Voluptuous range or a Cosette dress or even another Lyra.
What do you think of my purchases? Are you as much in love with them as me?
Lots of Love,
Clare
xxx