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Random vintage question of the day
Rando, rando, rando: what do you call those little clippy things gentlemen wore to make their vests fit right in the back, back in the day?
See, in Paris, I found this awesome wine-red hand-sewn wool dress. It has a v-neck and a line of glowing coal-red buttons marching diagonally across the bust: it has a fetching line of three sharp pleats extending from the point where the buttons end; it even has that Holy Grail of women's clothing, a pocket.
But it also has the silhouette of its period, which I would peg as the early 70s commenting on the early 40s, which is to say, no waist. And I really can't be having with that. I don't want to alter it, as there are just so many ways in which that could go wrong, and I think it looks weird with a belt, given the long straight diagonal lines of it, so ... help? A clip would make it fall just right, I think.
Dapper clothes-horse friends, anybody know what I'm talking about, and, better yet, where to find them?
See, in Paris, I found this awesome wine-red hand-sewn wool dress. It has a v-neck and a line of glowing coal-red buttons marching diagonally across the bust: it has a fetching line of three sharp pleats extending from the point where the buttons end; it even has that Holy Grail of women's clothing, a pocket.
But it also has the silhouette of its period, which I would peg as the early 70s commenting on the early 40s, which is to say, no waist. And I really can't be having with that. I don't want to alter it, as there are just so many ways in which that could go wrong, and I think it looks weird with a belt, given the long straight diagonal lines of it, so ... help? A clip would make it fall just right, I think.
Dapper clothes-horse friends, anybody know what I'm talking about, and, better yet, where to find them?