I adore getting creative with clothing. If I was skinny, I would be one hot dresser but it has come to my attention over the years that pre-1998 no-one appeared to be overweight and they certainly weren't six feet tall. Nothing vintage fits me. I'm lucky to get a roomy Sussan XL to fit me right now, but that's another story.
I initially wanted this post to be about gorgeous vintage clothes and the girls that become them, but I noticed something odd when deciding who to feature. The poses. All the gals who do the vintage look, well, they do the same poses as well. Are the poses vintage too?
What happens is that all these wonderfully quirky individuals end up looking a lot like each other. Somewhere along the way, whatever makes them 'different' makes them exactly the same. And, really, what is it with the 'little girl lost' poses? Does wearing vintage also mean you have to regress back in time yourself? The women I'm featuring here, and the stunning clothes they wear, are all marvellous, absolutely marvellous. And yet...
I'm not sure what to do with it.
The hair twirl
(aka the cutesy one leg bend)
This is Veronika from Girl and Closet
This is Ally from The Vintage Valley
This is Keiko from Keiko Lynn
The something very interesting is happening over... there
This is The Cherry Blossom Girl
This is Rachel from Smile and Wave
This is Elycia from Love Elycia
This is Sophie from Her Library Adventures (love this girl)
The leg cross
This is Esme from Esme and the Laneway
This is Amy at A is for Ampersand
The skirt tug
This is Lilli from Frocks and Frou Frou
This is Kaylah from The Dainty Squid
The 'who little ol' me?' pige
(my personal fave)
Do you like a vintage fash blog too?
Are you partial to a leg cross? A pigeon-toe? A twirl?
[Main photo is by Rachel at Smile and Wave]
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31 comments:
they are all total babes. I'd be any one of them if given half the chance (if i weren't happy just being chubby ol' me) dorky poses and all.
They are all female, have two legs, vintage clothes and a camera pointed in their face- bodies can only do so much!
xoxo em
sophie is AWESOME in every way!
I so love this. I am going to remember these poses! Haha epic . I will ham some of these out for my blog!
cutest outfits!
This came just in time. I've got a vintage post up my (batwing) sleeve.
Note to self: "straight neck...straight neck...STRAIGHT neck"
"hands off hips... OFF hips.... OFF!!!"
x
Love this post. I love the ladies and their clothes too.
My problem with vintage is that I have just hit the age where I can remember it from the first time around. Does that make me vintage??
I still trot out my old clothes on occasion and wore an old vening dress recently to a wedding and was congratulated on my vintage look. The problem was it was a dress I bought in 1995 myself and I felt like a fraud (and a dag).
Oh well. I figure it is most definitely a first world problem....
Hope life is good for you Bron.
Take care.
The only pose that kills me are the Facebook self portrait types with the must-have hand in hip, which obviously results in a skinnier looking arm.
Every.single.photo! That same bloomin' arm on the hip.
I've been known to delete people who take excessive amounts of self portraits with that stupid duck face kissy thing, or excessive use of hand on hip (BONE, may I add).
Mean, aren't I? ;)
I'm only just discovering vintage. But look silly in it.
Wish I looked cool. That'd be ... cool ;)
Thats funny but cute clothes and girls :)
Oh you have sooo nailed it...and the pidgeon toed look, to make it look like I am innocent and all that...pulease!x
Crack me up sis. I love a bit of vintage. I just wish I had more time to op shop again so I could get back into it! x
I love the clothes. I am so awkward in photos. These ladies totally put me to shame. My typical pose is me running away from the camera.
I do love vintage clothes. A lot!
I love looking at vintage on other girls but also find I am too tall and curvy to fit most of it. Plus I hate the feel of synthetics so that wipes a heap off the list too. Have taken my vintage appreciation out on the 3 yo who will wear anything pink no matter what decade it came from! melx
Asking the wrong person as im still trying to get to grips with the whole looking over the shoulder thang.
A leg cross maybe, but ill have you know im pigeon toed naturally in photos. Just so you know...
Love love these looks, very cute but just not on me. I such a boring dresser really. If I find something that works well I tend to buy a few, just different colours. I just don't have a clue about fashion so I admire from afar. ;) xx
Vintage clothes do not fit me. And I am not knocked kneed and pigeon toed x
From what I've seen so far... you're a bit partial to getting creative with just about anything!
And I do a really good 'hands on hips'... but more from a cranky mother perspective than a funky vintage fash model perspective. My bad?
Love the yellow flowers in The Dainty Squid shot. And the dress is cool too.
This is Gok'S doing. All that looking good naked has etched his poses into our sub conscious.
I love vintage but I look funny if I do it top to bottom. I tend to incorporate it with a mix of modern stuff so I don't look like a pioneer woman.
I think the poses are just what people generally do on Lookbook etc. I know when I'm trying to do outfit shots I tend to do the 'same' poses because I'm no model and there aren't many flattering angles!!!!!
So funny. And I'm guilty of doing some of those poses. Hahaha.
This made me laugh! You're so right about the poses but I do love the vintage look...and I'm just jealous cos I look so rubbish in vintage.
PMSL. I'm going to be rocking the hair twirl/one knee/pigeon toe thing in my next pic.
Oh dear these looks crack me up! Nailed it x
Check this out, and then check out the date and it'll all make sense why it never happened again:
http://katiecrackernuts.blogspot.com.au/2009/07/personal-dressers-apply-here.html
hilarious, absolutely hilarious!!
total crack up ♥
Love looking at vintage clothes and pics (not wearing, have never found anything much I've liked above Size Skinny) but really only from 50s & 60s & earlier. Any later and I've already worn it before....
Exactly! well said, if I see these pics on blogs I leave the area....immediately!!
@Renea Eliza - but I LOVE them! x
tee hee hee
so funny
so true
and I can't stop looking either
I wear lots of vintage and just in the last year have got brave about putting pics of my thrifted finds as well as all the vintage the small people wear on my blog and I have to say taking self portraits is the hardest. If you just stand there the pics look pretty lame and unless you have someone to take pics of you actually doing something you have to think about how to stand, I think these poses must just be the easiest way to pose for a pic without trying to look totally silly....but your right there does seem to be a theme to vintage pics
Oh gosh, when you see them all in a row like that...I guess there's only so many flattering poses in the world?
I always wonder who takes the photos for all these fashion bloggers - perhaps a tripod and a timer? I asked my husband once if he'd take a photo of me for my first ever 'What I Wore' post (I've only done two) and he thought I'd gone completely mad and was being even more narcissistic than usual! But logistics and posing aside I do love all these brave fashion bloggers - they always inspire me to mix things up a bit and to not be so dull when I get dressed in the morning.
Oh, and I feel your 'vintage doesn't fit me' pain. Apparently there where no 31+ inch waists in ye olden days...
hahah!!! yes you are totally right! They do the same pose, but oh I can't stop adoring the dresses and that they made the effort to put the outfit together...and even do their hair!
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