sometimes i wonder if i was born in the wrong decade...
did you know tartan is "in" this season? it is.
wear it like she does and you will be a knock-out.
does anyone else think she looks like camilla belle?
how glamorous does she look?!
what happened to people dressing their best when they travel?
now all people do is throw on some sweats and uggs. yuck.
i love her gloves.
i think i am going to find some gloves to wear with my "sunday best".
want to know what models had back then have that they don't now...
curves! praise be!
seriously...bring back the curves and don't throw out the title "plus size".
can christian dior do any wrong?
this ensemble is gorgeous.
i can see any modern girl wearing this dress.
it's the perfect LBD!
beautiful clothes. beautiful model. beautiful photo.
if you could live in any decade, what would it be?
and congrats to bekah for winning the giveaway!
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WOW i am NEVER the first to comment...lol. super excited about that one :)
anyhow - too funny we stayed in the same hotel and had the SAME view...it must be reserved for VIP only...lol!!!
I love how everything comes back into style in some way or another!
I like 1774
I would either be in the Jane Austen era or the 40s-50s ;)
I would pick the 40s and 50s as well. I love the clothes! I also love the way Jackie Kennedy dressed, so maybe I would pick the 60s too. So vintage and classic, I love it.
Amen, girl! I always think my curves would be more appropriate in the 40s/50s... and yes, how sad that anything above a size 6 is now "plus sized" - granted the sizes have also stretched a bit since back in the day, but still!
I love this! I would want to live in the 40's or 50's!
first thing I said on the first photo was "Is that camilla belle?!"
love this post. I just bought a trench this weekend and everyime I wear it I feel like I belong in a 40s movie!
(That was my first thought when I saw the picture - "That's Camilla Belle, right?")
I would first go back and try out Jane Austen's era in England...
But if that doesn't work out, then the 40s, probably.
I'm happy in this decade. I just want to wear the clothes from the 40s, 50s, and 60s. I'm not sure if I could live without the internet now!
But I would love to live in a simpler world, like how I feel the world was 100 years ago - that's something I hope to replicate in my own home. A garden, local ingredients in my meals, not a lot of stuff in my house. That sounds serene, just the way I want it.
I think I'd go with the 20's...Everything looked so glamourous back then. Maybe 50's, but not poodle-skirt fifties. More like girl-with-the-gloves fifties.
I also feel like I was born in the wrong decade. I would love to live in the 40's, for the clothes, or early 60's, for the hair (before the hippies:] haha) Those pictures are all gorgeous, women were truly classy back then. I love that girl's swimsuit on the beach. Swimsuits now are all dental floss.
I don't know. The 80's were kinda fun! :)
I was just thinking the other day how I wish I lived in the 40s or 50s. How funny. I think I love a lot about those decades and not just the fashion.
I love the 40's tailored suits &the 50's Audrey Hepburn Little Black Dress. However, having lived through a few decades I can tell you that clothes are a lot more comfortable now! I was a little girl in the 60's and had to wear white gloves every Sunday...in Mesa! They were HOT! I was in 7th grade in 1970 when girls were finally allowed to wear pants to school (but not jeans!). Before that we had to wear dresses. Seriously, who can hang upside down on the monkey bars in a dress!! "Teacher, teacher, I declare! I see Lauren's underwear!" I got so sick of the boys!
When I was allowed to wear stockings it was one year before panty hose came out. If you had to wear a garter belt you would never curse your panty hose!
I even made it clear through Ricks College and BYU before the dress codes allowed "nice designer type jeans". It was gabardine all the way for me! Snags and panty lines!
Yikes! I sound OLD don't I? Great post! I think you have inspired me for a Memory Monday post of my own!
oh my...the 20's. or 30's. or 50's. or early 60's in the era of the mad men, cuz' that's how i roll...
ok not really.
sigh. these pics are gorge.
the 50's for sure.
We're having blast from the past
day at school, and I'm going ALL out.
So excited :)
I definitely should have been in the 40's and 50's! These outfits are fabulous!
I love the figures back in the 50s and early 60s. I don't know if I would LIVE there, discrimination and all that, but I definitely would get tons of clothes there! :D
I love those pictures. And she DOES look like Camilla Belle!
i'm gonna go with the 1880's.
love me some victorian era england.
I've never thought about that. I guess one where curves were in. I have curves, I'm not mad about them. And it's true like someone said above, bathing suits are like dental floss these days.
All these pictures really are gorgeous. The models look like REAL WOMEN!!!
Lauren, you've really changed the way I saw fashion. You are a fashion icon on my book :)
I absolutely love these outfits, and I'm dying to find some clothes similar to the ones you've introduced me to on your blog.
Love,
Ella
Curves are IN, in my book that is! I'm grateful I don't have a boy body like all the models these days! Gross! I want that swim suit too! Marilin Monroe was a size 14..Sha Bang!!
You would look SO CUTE in all of this vintage stuff.
Lauren you must check this post out:
http://sherellechristensen.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/09/were-at-it-again.html
This is a gal who loves vintage and is an awesome photographer. She lives near me but you have to see these pic's she took of herself and her sister in vintage clothing. They are too cute. You will love her.
I think that this post is AWEsome.
I love style back then, and i think curves should be back in... cuz i definitely have them. haha i like them though, i just dont make them too known because the "boy shape" has been in style for too long- and its been ingrained in my head as how girls are supposed to look.
But i've learned over time.. curves are what we are.. and I don't want to have to hide it all the time.. so, i dont:)
Hmm. Probably the south in the 1850s & 1860s. Those huge dresses are just too funny! And I'm a big Gone with the Wind fan.
The Hubs and I both should have been at our peak in the 50s. Its where we belong.
I know I was born in the wrong decade. No question.
Give me all of this clothing now. That's all I ask out of life (today).
I thought that first model was Camilla Belle!
I think I belong in the 50's, too.
I float around my kitchen in an apron and my feminist friends look down their noses at me, but
a) it makes me feel feminine. Sue me.
b) I make them myself and they're awesome.
c) they protect my clothes.
And I saw something the other day where some talk show was interviewing plus-size models. One of them was a size 6. What is wrong with society today???
That's easy. The forties. Look at her sunday best!! Oh...I want it...
That's easy. The forties. Look at her sunday best!! Oh...I want it...
OMG...thanks for visiting my blog and leaving me a message...I have spent the last 20 minutes reading through your blog! Love everything on here...especially your outlook on life and your pics! LOVEY ; )
those outfits are just LOVELY!
i ALWAYS believe i should have lived in another decade!
i really like the early 1900s...i just adore the hats and dresses!
I always think I was born in the wrong decade too... I think it would've been fun to be born in the 40's and to experience everything they did. I also think it would be fun to live in the Victorian Era.
what great pictures!!!!!!! I also love elegance!!!!
Gorgeous clothes! :)
I dunno...I've enjoyed every decade so far...and that's a lot of decades.
i'm ridiculously giddy over the tartan theme for this fall. i can accent my clothes with all my favorite plaid pieces (i'm obsessed!).
Ughh i agree, I wish people would take more care into their clothes!
And ha my friends and family always joke I should have been born into a aristocratic English family in the Regency Era. I love the dresses & period!
ummm....so cute!
hard to choose.
i say victorian era, 30's or 40's. i think.
:)
All these looks are beautiful! I would love to live in an era where there was such a thing as a lady and a gentleman. As far as clothes go, have you ever seen the movie "Gigi?" I would love to wear the beautiful dresses in that movie. I think it's early 1900's.
those pictures were amazing. i love the 20's personally. but i like the time i was born.
& that first picture.. i thought it WAS camilla belle before i read the caption. haha!
this is why i love Mad Men, betty draper is so classic. and joan has killer curves.
As much as I LOVE the fashion of decades past, all I can think about while looking at those photos is: "Imagine the uncomfortable undergarments that they had to wear!" The non-push-up bras, girdles, and stockings...oh my!
For the style? Definitely the 40s. I would've loved to live in the big band era. Beautiful photos. Thanks for sharing. I love looking through photos of my grandmothers. I wish they had kept their clothes to hand down to me! :)
I love the 1920's-1930's and 1950's
THE 40'S
anytime "post corsets but pre I need to see your rib cage"! I love the way my grandmothers looked in their 20s and that was in the 1940s. This just inspired me to do a post. I have great pics of my grandparents from the 40s. Both of my Grandpas were in service (one Navy one Coast Guard)but I love the how they looked in their uniforms then with their gorgeous ladies!!
So strange. I was watching Charade the other day, which is my favorite movie and thinking, I should dress up everytime I go out. I was meant to live in the late 40s early 50s for sure. I was meant to love Cary Grant & Audrey Hepburn during a time when I could see their movies in the theatre!
I love it. I wish it were en vogue to always wear dresses everyday. Except I guess we'd have to shave everyday. Scratch that note, I'm not shaving daily.
Well I'm pretty sure I was born in the wrong century and location. Probably 1500-1600s, England for me. I can actually link royalty that far back (and farther) in England so you know I'd be in gowns and crowns if I were around then. And I love what they wore in Medieval times (royalty that is). Step aside Elizabeth I!
I only wish.
I would be a 40's chica for sure. I've been told I look like the actress in that first pic, btw. Peggy O'Connor, I believe. I would so rock that tartan dress...
You know, I truly believe that I was meant to be born in the here and now. I'm not a girly person, at all. I like football, shooting ranges, hunting, fishing, camping, etc. I wanted to be a ballistics (gun) forensics investigator back in the day. I loathe dresses. I hate heels (my hubby does to, I got lucky! :p) I'm addicted to technology. I love the internet and my Blackberry (aka CrackBerry :p). Now, I can dress up with the best of them. I do have girly tendencies. But I'm just not one of the girls that goes out of my way to look my best every day. Bad? Probably! and I do envy girls that can pull off a great dress. ANYWAY, I think I was born right where I needed to be :)
Amen to the curvesssss!
I feel the same way!
I like the 40s and 50s best.
and I agree on airport attire!
You should check out the Vintage Vogue patterns. I just purchased a bunch of patterns that have dresses similar to the ones you posted pictures of.
And Tartan is always in!! Especially if you have Scottish blood in your veins.
yes yes yes yes.
agreed!!!
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