The real beauty of vintage...

It's things like this that REALLY excite us vintage sellers and collectors... we all appreciate the history of a beautiful dress, imagining who owned it, where it was worn and what sights it has seen in its time, but once in a while you find a special dress with a genuine window into its past. Like this wonderful lavender 1950's prom dress and jacket. We found this one in America, land of beautiful vintage prom dresses! How could anyone not fall instantly in love... and to our pleasant surprise it came with a picture of the original owner... if only every dress had one!

Marked '1953' on the back, the owner actually looks a lot older than a lot of us might expect a dress like this to have belonged to... but people do say that folk looked a lot older than they actually were back then, so who knows! You really can't help but wonder where they were going, whether this was her most treasured dress or if she was quite wealthy and had a whole collection... the mind can wander for hours whilst staring at it! I wish this lady could see it now! All these years later...

And now, if you're a UK size 8, or even just a collector, it's your turn to own this piece of fashion history. Here it is recently modelled by the beautiful Natasha, and shot by the fantastic Brett Harkness. Buy it HERE.