INSPIRATION: POWER DRESSING in RED

While the seventies was a decade to let everything loose, in free-flowing crochet dresses and flares, the 1980s saw clothes get tighter, skirts shorter, jackets wider and pants get lycra-fied!

It was a period of excess and it certainly showed in the fashion of the times. More and more women were entering the workforce and dressing the part. Female silhouettes were heavily exaggerated by designers like Donna Karan, Ralph Lauren and Armani, with strong, broad shoulders featured on blazers and paired with impossibly slim fitting trousers and skirts to show their power and equality with men.

This week we have an amazing 80s dress that has just the right degree of crazy to its proportions: fitted skirt and wide pleated batwing sleeves , we can totally see Florence Welch belting out a ballad in this and some sky-high stilettos! What’s says POWER more than fiery red, right Kanye?

(Source: ebay.com.au)

INSPIRATION - Linen Dresses & Romance was Born!

This season Romance was Born (one of L’s favourite labels) incorporated a lot of linen in their AW 2012 collection, HAPPY CAMPER. One of our favourite pieces is the linen splice dress (especially in the navy colourway)! It has a delightful thick linen top with a bright silk printed skirt. RWB makes some wonderful clothes and designs their fabrics themselves as well - rumours has it, they do the designs in Melbourne in the same building as Alice Euphemia! (Though we did hear this many years ago!)

Having this dress in mind, we immediately saw the beauty of this navy spliced dress that is in our eBay store at the moment. Though it doesn’t have bright colours to entice you, the skirt is made from microsuede, giving it an equally luxurious feel to silk! Sitting just above the knee, we left this dress unaltered as we like the “babydoll” shapelessness of the waist line! If you feel like more ooommphh just style it with your favourite belt - a stand out colour like red or fuchsia would go wonderfully.

xx HF