Category: Women’s Fashion

Dollydagger is a great online destination when on the hunt for all clothes retro. As well as quality US brands Stop Staring and Mode Merr, they also stock the fabulous UK based Tara Starlet.

The collection includes this exclusive 1950s-style swing dress. Whilst the high street seems to be awash with prom dress styles at the moment, it’s the details on this design that make it stand out. As well as a full circle skirt, it’s got a flattering sweetheart neckline, a boned bodice and a halterneck strap that can be detached depending on how demure, or otherwise, you feel.

It’s available in red, black or royal blue satin at £75, or a more playful (and slightly cheaper at £69) polka dot print.

See it online at Dollydagger

The sun is starting to struggle out from the clouds, and that makes it an awful lot easier to start thinking of spring and summer clothing purchases. As with most years, the fashion pack are using lots of floral prints in this season's designs, which is no bad thing for retro lovers.

This White Cotton Floral Dress from Dorothy Perkins is a very sweet, traditional fifties style that is ideal for sunnier months. Both the shape and print combine to make this a surprisingly faithful fifties reproduction from a high street shop. A slightly flowing circle skirt, combined with a fitted though demure bodice make this an instantly recognisable retro item.

It's available from Dorothy Perkins for £30.

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Very gradually, the winter gloom seems to be lifting and thoughts are turning to summer days ahead. Perfect for a picnic in the park is this 1950s-style cropped top. With a sweetheart neckline and button through front, the pretty stamp and postmark print evokes the bygone glamour of foreign travel.

It's priced at an extremely reasonable £15.75, leaving plenty of change for ice creams.

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Mode Merr's retro reproductions are always worth a look, thanks to their wearability and accuracy of styling. Their dress designs never fail to impress us thanks to the truly versatile pieces which tread the line of dressy and casual so well.

The Original Vamp Dress is one of a number of new designs, and is well worth a look. Easily adapted to suit rockabilly, pinup, or psychobilly wardrobes, this dress keeps it simple and sassy. The figure hugging material, and sexy off the shoulder neckline avoid making this trashy thanks to the block colours and kneelength hemline.

Get the dress in either colour online for just $62.

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Polka dots can sometimes get tired as the go-to print for vintage inspired clothing design, but when a spot pattern is one well it's hard to beat. This Coin Spot Belt Dress from Oli falls on the good side of spots, for us, providing a head turner of a dress.

The use of coin sized spots makes this dress stand out from the many polka dotted versions. It's fun and cutesy, but also manages to avoid looking awfully Minnie Mouse. This is thanks to the interesting dress shaping. Avoiding the obvious circle skirted fifties frock, this goes for edgy necklines and great structure to provide a slinky look.

It's available online from Oli for £60, in a stretch cotton fabric.

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