Where Can You Find
Authenic Vintage Wedding Dresses?
What are authentic vintage wedding dresses? These are gowns made during a specific era of time. Are you looking for 1920's, 1930's, 1940's, 1950's, 1960's and 1970's wedding dresses?
You mostly will find these at specialty shops specializing in vintage clothing. Also antique shops will carry vintage bridal gowns.
And they will sometimes turn up at thrift stores and estate sales.
Ebay, Craigslist, local newspaper and other classified ad sites, are also places you might locate a vintage bridal dress.
Have you checked your grandmother's attic lately. There may be a gown in a chest somewhere or in a wedding dress preservation box.
Ask your friends and family members if they have gowns still in their possession that are at least 20 to 50 years old. This is where your moms old gown comes in handy. If you ask around you may find out that someone you know has a friend or family member who has a gown stashed away somewhere.
Vintage Wedding Dress Tips
Here are some tips for purchasing vintage wedding gowns...
- The Fabric. The older the gown, the more chance there is that the fabric could show signs of deterioration. So inspect it carefully for frayed, torn or worn thin areas before purchasing.
- The Seams. Check the stitching for the seams to make sure that the thread hasn't dry rot. The gown can come apart easily at the seams. You may need to reinforce every seam.
- The Size. The sizing changed over the years. So you can't use the size you wear now. So if you are ordering a vintage wedding dress, you need to use your measurements. Find out the gown measurements that you wish to purchase. Remember to add an inch or so to your measurements for ease of movement. You don't want a skin tight fit.
- Fitting. If you are able to try on the gown you may notice that the gown proportions for the waist are smaller than they are. Women, once upon a time, had smaller waistline measurments compared to their bust and hip areas. Because of wearing corsets, at one time, a 18" to 22" waist was not that unheard of. So you may need to have the gown sized out in the torso by adding panels to the midsection.
If you want to see pictures of wedding dresses from the past, this website www.fashion-era.com has loads of pictures. They have information on each decade and pictures to show the vintage wedding dress styles for the time period.
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