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Archive of 2022: Very hot autumn outfit in style of 1965 & New Look's sheath dress silhouette

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It's been almost a month since I posted anything. I apologize to my readers. I've had a tough month, both physically and emotionally. A long semi-annual heat, then sudden changes in temperature, and my health was greatly fell down. Unfortunately, I did not have time to publish all my outfits for the autumn. As well as due to unsettled weather, I was not able to do new photo shoots with winter outfits.  Therefore, I continue to publish outfits for a very hot and hot autumn using my archive of 2022. This time I'm demonstrating a silk sheath dress. But let's look at history a bit. What is called a sheath dress? Sheath dress is a narrow dress that emphasizes the female figure. The classic version has no sleeves, is with knee length, and its neckline, as a rule, has a rounded shape (that is, like in my presented outfit). Sheath dress is an eternal classic, a symbol of sophistication, elegance and boundless femininity. The date of birth of the sheath dress is usually consider...

Very hot autumn outfit "La Tenue en rose" in style of 1962-1963s with real vintage little pillbox hat

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I apologize for not posting on my blog for too long. It seems that the prolonged heat has begun to adversely affect my health. Hence the delay. In this outfit, I show off a hat that my photographer friend Alexandrina Wasiliewa-Szylowska and I redecorated.  It was a really vintage pink straw little pillbox hat from the 1950s-1960s. However, its decorations, if any existed, have not survived to this day.  But we took vintage paper roses and vintage voile décor and redecorated it. It turned out, as it seems to me, very refined and gentle.  This hat, among more than 20 others, I managed to buy last spring from a French woman who lived in a resort town in Andalusia and kept her own shop.  She was returning to France and urgently selling her collection of vintage hats.  It was a very lucky purchase for me, and I regret that such cases are rare.   I pair this little pillbox hat with a silk dress from a modern Finnish brand that I bought on sale in a vintage ...