Get dressed!!

And do it in the neat vintage dresses available from my Etsy ladies' vintage shop: www.etsy.com/shop/friskyvintage

First up, this Depression era charmer WITH ITS ORIGINAL TAG FROM MONTGOMERY WARD!!!

Never worn, and perfect for channeling your inner Early Career Joan Crawford or Barbara Stanwyck.

Fast-forwarding about 30 years, we have this insanely yummy Little Black Dress in silk shantung, which I could swear I saw worn in a movie by... well, I forget who exactly, but she looked mahvelous.

Next up, a dress from roughly the same period, styled not for Cafe Society, but for the preppy college gal or typing pool denizen:

While this circa 1966 silk shantung gown may look like nothing special in this picture, it is mindbogglingly gorgeous in person.  

 PERFECT for when you feel the need to channel your inner Darling-era Julie Christie.

 And now for another demographic, the ladies who lunch.  This is an Arnold Scaasi dress with jacket.  Vintage catalogs call these combinations 'suits,' but to me a suit is a jacket and skirt, not a jacket and dress.  

  I know I'm right.

Moving along, we have what is generally considered a 1960s 'scooter girl' dress.

Excellent for scootering purposes and/or for the aspiring manic pixie dream girl.

Here's a shout-out from Hawaii, the one and only bestest Hawaiian-made dress EVER.

The dress is covered with pretty Japanese ladies, which appear to have been painted onto the black fabric.  They weren't, but it's just as neat as if they were.

Now on to the early Seventies, where we find this hot hot hot charmer that no doubt was originally worn with sky-high chunky heels.

Here's a beauty from someone's Caribbean vacation circa 1972:

In the early 1970s, long dresses were worn for practically every event, including but not limited to bowling league banquets.  (Honest.)  The above is sooooooooooo much more attractive than what was commonly worn, especially to bowling league banquets.

This utter charmer may have appeared at a bowling league banquet, but I doubt it.

It's more like something that would have been worn to a garden party or a bar mitzvah with an arty-er than average crowd.


From a little later in the Seventies, we have this rather sophisticated jersey print frock.

 Proof-positive that not all mid-to-late Seventies fashion was ghastly.

Arriving in the early 1980s, we have this high-end designer charmer (so high-end, in fact, that the maker-designer is anonymous).  Perfect for high-kicking dance and party purposes, on account of the top half actually being a bodysuit.

Everyone seems to have a fondness for 1980s secretary dresses.

 

I would, but I actually WAS a secretary back then.  What I remember most were dresses with black and blue prints, i.e. not black prints and blue prints, but prints having both colors at the same time.  Oddly, these almost never turn up in thrift shops.

This was the type of thing I would wear.  Lightweight cotton, pretty print, demure as all get out.

In fact, this would probably fit me, so if it doesn't make the trip to someone else's closet, it might just end up in mine.