Claire's Picks

Retro Dresses That Feel Current

Retro dressing is at its best when it feels like a genuine reference rather than a costume. A sixties shift done in a modern fabric. Seventies prairie done with a contemporary silhouette. The references should be clear but the result should feel like you found something rather than assembled something. We've been pulling together the retro dresses that hit that balance. The ones that feel nostalgic and current at the same time, which is harder to achieve than it looks.

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Coloured Retro Dresses in Period Palettes

A coloured retro dress uses colour palettes that reference specific decades in a way that adds period character to the dress through the colour choices themselves. The warm avocado and burnt orange of the seventies, the primary colour boldness of the sixties, the pastel precision of the fifties. The period palette needs to be executed in quality fabric and a considered construction. These are the coloured retro dresses that feel current because the quality of the period palette reference and the currency of the construction create a dress that earns its retro character through the deliberateness of the colour choice rather than through any more obvious period reference, which is the most sophisticated version of retro dressing available.

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Retro dressing is at its best when it feels like a genuine reference rather than a costume. A sixties shift done in a modern fabric. Seventies prairie done with a contemporary silhouette. The references should be clear but the result should feel like you found something rather than assembled something. We’ve been pulling together the retro dresses that hit that balance. The ones that feel nostalgic and current at the same time, which is harder to achieve than it looks.

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