I am not a big fan of pink.
However, there must be a reason I keep seeing pink ruffled dresses everywhere...and loving them!
First there was this confection on my fave, Thandie Newton.
Dress by Matthew Williamson Now, this was a pink I could live with and it was just dreamy.
Then there was this, as part of the J.Crew wedding collection. I loved it and thought it would make a much better wedding dress than the one it was pictured with.
Eliza JLater, I found and sent this Eliza J dress to EmilyStyle as a suggestion for her wedding reception dress.
Simplicity 7715Some time later I found this gem of a pattern on Woof Nanny's Flickr stream of vintage patterns! At first I didn't notice the similarities. Not until I left a comment for the picture saying how it would make a great modern wedding dress. And that was when I had my AHA! moment... 'I had thought this before.'
Now, of course, it's really just the last two dresses that look alike but to me they are all a departure from what I would normally gravitate to. So I think it was all a needed progression so I could fall in love with this last one.
Which, come on, wouldn't mean the same to me if it was a modern pattern. Of course, it had to be vintage, right?
4 comments:
I bought Simplicity 2724 almost solely because of the pink ruffled shirtdress on the pattern envelope! It's really cute. http://www.simplicity.com/dv1_v4.cfm?design=2724
I'm seeing a ruffled shirt dress in my future! Or at least, I hope so. I love that vintage pattern.
I see what you mean. I especially like the first two -- very pretty.
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