A quick little post of a yummy 1970's vintage dress I discovered at a wonderful local Catholic Church Sale. It is on sale now in my Whimsy Daisy Etsy Shop!
It is so sweet and innocent.
I could love sheets in this print.
Or wallpaper.
Or a big overstuffed chair.
This dress is special and not off the rack. I like to imagine a cutesy Mrs. Brady Bunch-type mom purchasing her fabric from Sew-Fro and carefully cutting it out from a Simplicity pattern. With great care she sewed it on her new avocado green Singer sewing machine she received for Christmas.
She was making it for her daughter to wear to be inducted into the National Honor Society. It was a proud moment for her as a mother, as she had always been an average B student in her school days. It was going to be a very special evening indeed!
She put the finishing touches on the dress and proudly presented it to her daughter. Her daughter's face fell and she sobbed, "Oh Mother. I can't wear that! All the other girl's have store bought dresses from Sears!" Daughter then burst into tears and ran from the room. Cutesy-Mrs.-Brady-type-mom sat down in the midst of her pattern pieces and fabric scraps and wept.
Years later Mother and Daughter laughed over this memory. Daughter hugged now-wrinkled-cutesy-Mrs.-Brady-type as they looked at her pictures from the night of The National Honor Society Banquet of 1972. She said, "Oh Mother, everybody else had store bought dresses from Sears and I wore the most beautiful dress in the world!"
Okay...so I get a little carried away with the imagined history of the vintage clothing I purchase.
I love the way your imagination works and the way you bring life to the articles you find and sometimes sell. XOxo
Posted by: Bob Ralph | March 22, 2011 at 12:29 PM
Melony, you are such a talented writer. I so enjoy reading your little stories. By the way, I have a daughter Melanie spelled the ordinary way. She was named after Melanie the folksinger from the late sixties, early seventies.
Posted by: Patsy | March 22, 2011 at 09:45 PM
I just realized when I commented it linked me to my art blog but I'm patsy from the etsy team, Vintage, which is where I first saw you.
Posted by: Patsy | March 22, 2011 at 09:52 PM
The dress is cute, and the story you imagined behind it makes it even cuter.
Posted by: kimbuktu | March 28, 2011 at 04:47 AM
This dress is gorgeous!! I love it! I can so see it with a hat or with flowers throughout someone's hair. so pretty. nice find!
Posted by: Victoria / Justice Pirate | March 28, 2011 at 09:58 AM
I love the story and I remember wearing things that I wouldn't have picked out but we didn't have the money to get new stuff. I have a sister 3.5 years older than me and I wore her Homecoming Game Princess Dress from 1975. I wore it to my 1980 prom and it wasn't popular to wear vintage then. lol The dress was really beautiful though. I wish we had kept it.
Posted by: Katharine | April 12, 2011 at 12:32 AM
Vintage dresses are really cute. I saw many vintage dresses but yours look very light to the eye.
Posted by: slim grey suits | June 30, 2011 at 12:13 AM