Celebrate the Royal Wedding Vintage Style
The Royal Wedding this year will be a very happy event for all of us, a day off work to party on down – hooray!
I can’t really imagine Kate Middleton having a quirky vintage wedding because she comes across as serene, chic and tasteful and never putting a foot wrong.
Kate is a natural beauty, fairly conservative in dress and rather traditional so she might well go for the elegant style of a heavy, clingy yet floaty wedding dress such as the darling designs by Alice Temperley, which have great attention to detail and delicate decorations in pearls, stitchery and tiny diamantes.
Kate's dress is likely to be very different from the dresses worn at previous Royal Weddings. Will’s grandmother The Queen wore a Norman Hartnell creation with brocade in the finest satin with an incredibly long train made from lace. The Queen Mother wore a lovely wedding dress with an enormous veil that was typical of the 1920’s fashion of the time. Princess Diana wore a magnificent and truly elegant meringue which well and truly confirmed her as the fashion icon she was.
This royal wedding will be a Bank Holiday and there are many communities up and down the country organising street parties. This is a fabulous opportunity for us girls to wear our vintage tea frocks and glorious hats, as we sit at long tables eating cucumber sandwiches and homemade jam tarts. Hats can definitely be seen in a crowd and my favourite hat maker has to be Edwina Ibbotson.
My “I love...” on my expert page this month is Edwina Ibbotson Millinery. Edwina creates very beautifully designed and exquisitely made hats with a distinctive vintage look using a very unique choice of fabrics which set her apart from others.
Let’s all wear our vintage hats on the Royal Wedding Bank holiday. If you are inclined you can organise a street party for this day in your village/community with Champagne corks a poppin’.
Article by Amanda Baird of The Utterly Sexy Café
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