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Vintage Style Lingere
"Changing the world with good manners and style!" Welcome to the home of the Darling Sisters. With Lovely Lisa of ShutterBug Baby and all our fabulous friends in the Sophisticates Society, Darla and Blossom Darling are here with vintage-inspired charm, deportment, manners, style, philosophy and anything that we feel will make this lovely world even lovelier. We are based in Canberra, Australia. Frequently we pack our pretty bags and hop on a train, plane or automobile to take our brand of charm interstate - and via the Darling Sisters' Boutique, even overseas.
The Darling Sisters
Recently Tourism Victoria asked me to take a journalist on a personal tour of vintage shops in Fitzroy, so of course, I was very pleased to comply! It was an incredibly enjoyable day, helped in no small part by the fact that Christine McCabe is a darling. We started with breakfast at my favourite cafe, Mario’s on Brunswick Street – where we were served by one of the Marios at my favourite table (where almost five years before I had proposed to my husband Tim) and the tour got off to a good start with a skip around the corner on Johnston Street to see Guy Matthews and his furniture. Guy Matthews Industrial is one of those shops that I pass frequently and never find the time to go in, so it was great to remedy it, and like a few of the shops we went to that day, the inside is not what you expect – what we found was lots of French and European antiques and posters.
Circa Vintage Clothing
RetroStar Vintage Clothing is the largest vintage clothing store in Australia, housing over 10,000 items of vintage clothing and accessories. From the 1940’s to the 1980’s, whether you are searching for vintage dresses, psychedelic prints, 70’s flares, western boots, vintage t-shirts, jeans or jackets there is no doubt RetroStar Vintage Clothing will have something to catch your eye. RetroStar Rockstar stocks over 5000 rock and band t-shirts from The Beatles, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix to Bring Me The Horizon, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Guns-n-Roses.
Retrostar Vintage Clothing
It’s not hard to see why so many curvaceous women turn to fashions from the 40s and 50s when it comes to making the most of their bodies. The era’s pin-up girls, ‘cheesecake’ models and Vargas girls all had waspish waists and sexy curves. Actresses had hourglass figures that their clothes could barely contain (think Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe, Diana Dors) and all women wore girdles that sculpted their bodies to perfection and bullet bras that gave the appearance of a Joan Holloway-esque bosom on even a petite woman. I know from reading comments and looking at search terms that many of us wish we could eschew badly-designed, poorly-fitting modern pieces for something more flattering from the past. But finding true vintage pieces from that era for a larger figure can be difficult. Most good pieces are expensive, and many come in very small sizes, especially on the waist.
Good Vintage List
Vivien of Holloway
Be prepared for the first glimpse of blue skies with our high-waisted, front-pocketed shorts. In our favourite bright colours and prints, snap this Summer must have up before it's too late!
Stop Staring!
Welcome to Stop Staring! LA's Best Kept Secret for sexy vintage-inspired cocktail dresses ! We carry the largest selection of beautiful cocktail dresses , vintage inspired designs, and rockabilly clothing – all with great affordable prices, and an awesome fit.