Tips of Dressing up with Vintage Clothing

The fashion world is a fast-paced and dynamic world to be in. Dressing up require serious dedication, passion and a huge amount of confidence, it is also a representation and interpretation of our styles and individual personalities. Hence, if you are shy or are just scared when it comes to styling your outfits, it can be quite stressful. While some people are quick to adapt with ease, others take a little longer to get used to it. If you do not know how to dress up with good fashion sense and vintage clothing, we are here to help you to solve the problem. Here to teach you how to wear vintage clothing with good fashion sense.

In vintage clothing and accessories are fashionable even by contemporary standards, but too much vintage at once can be overwhelming and look frumpy. Try mixing a few key vintage items into with trendy, sophisticated modern items to create your own unique look.

For my personally, I extremely love when someone is styling treads that line between reality and theatricality. Besides that, I am all for wearing whatever it is that you feel well in, especially if what you feel good in is an expression of your creativity and spirit.

1. Pick garments that look like current trends.

The first tips of dressing up with vintage clothing are picking up garments that look like current trends. I would like to say that so many modern fashion houses and designers have great archives of vintage garments. Besides that, they are always adding to and from which they draw inspiration. In fact, most of the trendy and contemporary fashion is really a reinterpretation of styles from the past, and every one would be extremely surprised that how close a lot of modern designer clothing comes to replicating with older garments.

2. Contemporary hair and makeup.

For the second tips, contemporary hair and makeup are playing a vital in vintage clothing. The contemporary hair style can be considered an aspect of personal grooming, fashion, and cosmetics, although practical, cultural, and popular considerations also influence some hairstyles. In addition, the oldest known depiction of hair braiding dates back about 30,000 years. In ancient civilizations, women’s hair was often elaborately and carefully dressed in special ways with vintage clothing. They are giving hours to recreating precise makeup application and vintage hairstyles, their hair and makeup are already going to look comparatively modern. The hair and makeup in simplicity is a tried and true way of matching with a vintage outfit. For instances, wearing a 1950's dress with a slicked back ballerina bun or pairing an Edwardian blouse with the smoky eyes. Even contemporary versions of classic hairstyles will update a look while still giving a nod to the appropriate era; modernized 1940's loose waves.

3. Modern accessories.

Thirdly, a pair of perfect vintage clothing cannot without matching with the modern accessories. Pairing of vintage clothing also must match with modern shoes, bags and sunglasses are an easy way to dramatically ground an otherwise whimsical garment. It is easy to keep the overall look streamlined by picking a color that is present in the garment and wearing contemporary accessories in the same color. Of course, pops of vibrant color paired with all black accessories is also a quick way to modernize a classic vintage garment.

4. Mixing vintage and new separates.

Lastly, mix and matching vintage clothing and new separates are probably the easiest way of beginning to work vintage into your wardrobe, as well as a simple way of taking a very unique, fancy vintage piece and making it more fashionable for day. Furthermore, style spans the ages, Mix and match your favorite styles from different decades to show how modern style is the synthesis of style from eras past. From example, I would like to suggest the vintage fashion lovers to wear a 1970s shirt-dress with 1980s leggings and match it with Victorian-inspired heeled boots, and top things off with a 1920s cloche hat. It will look absolutely vintage yet fashionable. 

By: Low See Ting (0108745)