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5 Tips To Help You Shop For Clothes Online

December 29, 2019 Richard Beck Vintage Casual Dresses

Although online shopping has become very popular in the last number of years, with more and more people flocking to the Internet to buy anything from groceries, to furniture, people are still a bit apprehensive when it comes to shopping online for clothes. A lot of people cannot understand how you can decide a garment would look good on you without trying it on first, which is understandable. But there are many benefits to shopping online for clothes, including massive deals, which should tempt anyone to try clothes shopping online.

In this article I would like to share my 5 tricks to help you shop online for clothes, so that you are satisfied with your experience, whether you choose to keep the items you buy or not!

1. Read The Product Description Carefully

At first this might sound pretty obvious, but I myself am very much guilty of ‘quick glance shopping syndrome’. When shopping online you browse around the websites looking at pictures of products, and once you see a picture of something you like, you might not read the entire product description in detail. You might simply read the item summary, without going into the nitty gritty detail of the product. This is a big mistake, as the description might contain information about the product which might not appeal to you, and which would influence your purchasing decision. It might also give some clues about the sizing and fit of that particular garment.

Once in fact, I bought a …

My Vintage Spring/Summer 2011 Vintage Trend Report

November 30, 2019 Richard Beck Vintage Casual Dresses

As London Fashion Week draws to a close and New York seems a distant memory, we give you all the best tips for dressing on trend the vintage way…

70’s Chic

This season, the catwalk is full of seventies inspired designs – and we love it! But this revival is less disco and boho secretaries are sexier. Imagine thin and smooth pussybow blouses paired with long pants or high waisted shorts. Large floppy hats and hippy dresses will certainly be a summer staple and maxi dresses are here to stay. Another recent resurgence trend is a jumpsuit that will be bigger than this year. And don’t let us forget wedge heels – summer footwear must!

Bold color

Black is good and good but we are very happy to see the bright and bold colors return to the runway! Especially orange, yellow, blue and pink beams! There are some great vintage findings in bright colors. For oranges and yellows, the best era is the swinging sixties era and the electric pink and blue colors are no more than eighties and separate cocktail dresses. Take color and experiment – the brave will conquer this summer!

Elegant bare

To get a finer trend in 2011, being naked and sheer is a must. If you are pale-skinned, then stick to creamy white nudes, tanned and olive-skinned girls should turn toward peach-skinned nudes and mixed races and dark skin color should be used to bare with golden color. Think of light chiffon, thin silk and …

Vintage Wedding Ring – Where to Buy and What to Look For

November 15, 2019 Richard Beck Vintage Casual Dresses

As more and more people are choosing a vintage wedding ring, the sellers are getting increasingly greedy.

Of course there are some traders out there is who are honest and are not trying to rip you off. However, this cannot be said for all of them.

Because more people want to find a vintage wedding ring, more people want to sell them. The problem here is that some of these people do not know as much as we would like to think about the products.

Where to buy your vintage wedding ring

If you are visiting markets for your vintage wedding ring – be very careful. Some traders at markets will have retail outlets as well, these are the most reputable of the traders and you should not buy your wedding band from anyone who is just a stall holder.

If you are going to buy your ring from a shop, then there are two types of shops. There are vintage or antique shops and there are jewellery shops. Jewellery shops will have standards and experience in all types of jewellery. Vintage shops are not going to have experienced jewellers working their, the staff in these places will probably have less knowledge than you.

The best place to buy your vintage wedding ring is at a retail out let where the jeweller has a specific interest in the era you are looking for. You may think that these people will be hard to find. But they are worth the effort …

Vintage Clothing – Are You Craving For Uniqueness in Your Style?

July 25, 2019 Richard Beck Vintage Casual Dresses

Everyone talks about fashion, trend and style. But some people think about looking unique and cool. Do you belong to the same clan? Do you want to get rid of same old fashion of jeans and t-shirt? If yes, you should go for vintage clothing. If want to look unique at your friend’s wedding ceremony, wear a gown from 1940s or 50s. You’d find most of the celebrities wearing vintage apparel just to look unique. Whenever you see a celebrity wearing dress from 50s or 60s it seems to be history is repeating itself. Isn’t it? You can buy vintage clothes from several wholesale women’s clothing stores as well as websites.

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There is myth among women who are craving for vintage attire. Myth is that they think vintage clothing and antique clothing is one and the same thing. Dresses that belong to early 20th century or the time before 1920s are considered as antique dresses. However, clothing that was emerged between 1930s and 60s is known as vintage apparel. So, there is a huge difference between these two. You must have heard of thrift stores as well. In real sense thrift store is a place where people donate their clothes for charitable resale. You can easily get vintage clothes at these stores that too at reasonable price.

While buying vintage attire form wholesale women’s clothing range, make sure the dress does not have any holes since they could be as old as 60 years. You might find stains, …

Update Your Wardrobe With A Vintage Style Dress

May 20, 2019 Richard Beck Vintage Casual Dresses

Fashion has many faces, it is in vogue one month and totally out of vogue the next month it seems, but the plus side of these trends are the facts that you can then have vintage style dress codes. Not everyone likes or chooses to dress in up to the minute fashion, clothes that are not long off the catwalk from various designers around the world. Some people choose to dress in vintage clothes; there are lots of places where you could potentially get your hands on a vintage dress.

There are many second-hand shops in most towns, also charity shops of some kind or other that sell lots of vintage clothing. If you are looking for a particular type of vintage style dress, then that would be easy enough to search for via the internet. All you need to do is visit one of the major online search engines and type in vintage style dress; it will return a list of websites that are stocking vintage style dresses for you to browse through.

Just because you are looking for a vintage dress it does not mean that it has to be second-hand or actually vintage from the era the clothes were made in. There are plenty of stores that specialise in re-creating clothing from different eras of history.

The companies will source retro fabrics and other materials and start creating vintage dresses. The will only be one difference and when completed they look exactly the same as …