Much like the pencil skirt , shift dresses can be hard to find on the High Street if you're not a standard size. The average” modern figure has a much smaller waist to hip ratio than women in the 1950s, which actually makes them far more suited to this style of dress. If you're one of those people without a lot of curves, then the shift dress is your easy answer to elegant vintage style.
Lilly Pulitzer popovers are a MUST HAVE!! They can be dressed up or down, and they make you feel chic but super comfortable. I am 5'1 and 125lbs and can fit into both sizes S and M but I prefer the medium. They wash well (cold wash, inside out, delicate cycle, woolite) and you can throw them in the dryer without fear of shrinkage or hang dry them. The coral lover's popover is now my 3rd popover and I will buy more!
It's really quite amazing to think about just how influential Lilly Pulitzer's simple tropical prints have been and how they continue to be copied today. Maybe it is just the idea of buying into the tropical or coastal lifestyle”. Today the brand seems to say Summertime Preppy” even more than it did when it first hit the fashion scene in the early 1960s. Lilly herself lived that lifestyle - attended private school with Jackie Bouvier Kennedy, married a Pulitzer Publishing heir, and moved to south Florida. And somewhere along the line she created a line of clothes that seemed to epitomize the lifestyle of the rich and prep school educated.
Her dresses were brightly colored and often had whimsical prints that usually incorporated her name, Lilly, somewhere in the design. Key West Handprinting was used to produce the early fabrics. She also began using a special hem lace, with the name Lilly spelled out in it. Her dresses spread far beyond Palm Beach, and proliferated nationally throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
The term 'shift' is applied to a distinctive style of juniors, women's or plus size dress. This style of dress is designed to hang loosely from the shoulders, and not appear as if it is form-fitting or tight. Shift dresses can come in sleeveless or short-sleeve styles, and can vary in lengths from just above the knee to floor length. Pair a shift dress with a cardigan sweater or blazer for a look that is perfect when the temperatures start to dip.
Folkloric peasant styling was used with traditional Swiss/Austrian style embroidered braid finishing off garment edges. Eyelet laced belts tied up with shoelace fine ties or satin rouleaux drew on folkloric elements found not only in Europe, but also in India. All that foreign travel, because of the availability of cheap airfares, was bringing a mixed bag of ethnic ideas into mass market fashion.
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