have a wardrobe full of vintage clothes

to include the 1940’s and 1950’s. I am using vintage patterns to make dresses. I have 14 dress patterns fron the forties. a whole lot of maternity patterns from the 1950’s. No unladylike maternity for me.

I am often told “you look like a girl from a coke tin.” I have always felt that I may have been born in the wrong era. Now at 31 years of age I feel it might just be time to embrace the original features my Heavenly Father gave me and stop trying to put my self into a modern mold that isn’t nearly as becoming or graceful. Having tried to find feminine, romantic, more modest modern clothes to fit the beauty in my imagination, I have been sadly disappointed. I have alway wanted to clothing off of Piorot.

I’ve always loved the past, even as a little girl. I can remember watching classic old movies on TV or video and loving the way everything looked, the cars, the homes and especially the way the actors and actresses dressed. Everyone just looked more stylish and classy in those old fashioned style than the people I came into contact with in daily life. I always wondered why all the styles changed (or maybe “devolved” in a better word). But being a modern day girl, I wore modern day clothes for most of my life, t-shirts, jeans, crop tops, capris, etc. Of course when I grew older and discovered that lots of people shared my love of things past, I dfound that the vintage fashions I loved could still be found at thrift stores or online vendors. But I only bought them occasionally, a dress here for a dance, a pencil skirt there, just to wear something different to school. Things have really changed recently, though… I started going to chuch, was saved and devoted my life to the Lord. I deided thatI should start dressing like a young lady, not just occasionally or when I went to church, but all the time. I’ve since given up wearing pants and now wear skirts and dresses everyday. Since I also dress more modestly, wearing the vintage clothes I love all the time seems like a natural thing to do. All the dresses, skirts, blouses and suits are sooo ladylike and feminine, and I like that a lot.