Vintage Dresses Year 'Round │'Tis the Season

I'm telling you. The world is bringing me dresses right now.

I go through literal deserts, trudging through hot sand, with very little hope of no dresses some seasons. But right now, it's all about the oasis, and three pools all with slides and a spa, and beautiful drinks with fruit and umbrellas in them.

The dresses I'm finding are that good.

Here's a few just from one store. Seriously. That is insane! (And I'm not complaining.)

So this black dress I'm wearing, well, I'm keeping it. For now. See, all four of these dresses (1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1960s respectively from left to right) all fit me, to some degree.

Now, three of the four don't fit me as well as I want them to, so I'm begrudgingly selling them, in hopes they fit you better. This black one though, yeah, that's the one I'm keeping. It has rhinestones in the tule/lace skirt. It's splendid.

And the belt is still there. Woah. Y'all. You know how hard it is for dresses to keep their belts? So difficult. I'm not sure how they get lost, but when people move, keeping the belt with the dress is never a priority (sadly). The belt yearns for freedom, or something, so when I find them -- and all the dresses in this lot that are supposed to have belts HAVE THEIR BELTS-- it's a dream within a dream come true.

Anyway, cocktails dresses are a plenty in my shop and no, it's not too early to begin thinking about Christmas parties.

Check out the dresses!◄ I've got just a few right now (nearly 120!)

Happy dress hunting and Happy early Holidays!

-HJS

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