not dead, only sleeping: lace dress

Hi! My next installation in my Back From the UK series: lace dresses.

Yes, we are doing them here. Are the British just a little bit more into them? I can't help but think yes. UK and lace dresses: call them kindred spirits.

Another place that's really into lace dresses is eBay. I love eBay and I'm dedicating this post to all of the beautiful clothes that are not dead, only sleeping. Enjoy.

Hanae Mori Silk Lace Dress

 

Hanae Mori opened her fashion house in Japan in 1951. She presented her first line in New York in 1965 and opened an haute couture showroom in Paris in 1967. She designed movie costumes as well. She has been honored by both the French president and the Emperor of Japan for her work. She is a fashion icon.

This dress is presented for sale by American Archive at 348 USD. It measures 37-28-36.



Bill Blass Lace and Swiss Dot Dress

Born in Wayne Indiana, Bill Blass began his fashion career in New York in 1946. He worked under Baron de Gunzburg, before launching his own line in 1959. Bill Blass worked for almost 20 years with Ford Motors on signature car lines and in WWII worked making and camouflaging dummy targets to fool the Germans. The Bill Blass line is known for wearability and clean styling.

This dress is available from VIP Consignment at 850 USD. It measures 34-25-open.

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Besos! -Skyler
http://www.theseearthlybodies.com/

Back from the UK: please do this.

Sorry for the break. Just back from a week or two checking out Oxford, looking at colleges, etc.
British style: please do this. More to come but here's a quick list of areas where I think the UK excels:

1. Coats. This is not really fair. Obviously they have a lot more experience than we do at wearing coats, weather being such as it is. I was there in April. It rained every day. This is typical. At first I'm thinking, "What's the big deal? The English countryside is so beautiful!"  Day 10 I'm thinking, "Where is the nearest suicide prevention center?" Nice coats, though. Seriously.


This guy is in "Migration Studies." Everyone is.

- from Trussardi's f/w 2012-13. Buy it. Buy all of it.



2. Leather Goods. Yes, here too, the British seem fantastic. Greater cow to human ratio? I'm not sure what it is, but the abundance of rich looking leather goods boggled my mind. As everywhere, neons, fluorescents, and gem tones are huge.


- Mulberry's Holiday Bayswater 895 GBP from Harrod's



- from Etro s/s 2012




3. Manor Homes. This kind of thing happening all the time: people stomping around on their estates, in their 18th century converted church schools, on their farm manors, all the time wearing tweedy blazers, corduroys, linen vests and sensible waterproof boots. Are they for real? Initial research suggests that yes, they are for real.

Will you have a tea? I believe we met in the Migration Studies lecture last week.

- from Scapa s/s 2012




4. Mixed Patterns. I know, I know. Everyone is doing this everywhere all the time now. A J. Crew catalog last week informed me that "stripes were the new solids." We can do much better than that, though.


Attention America: please wear this to class.

- from Etro a/w 2012



5. Socks. So simple. So ubiquitous. So much better there. Why?


Socks: both critical and superfluous. It rained like 89" while I was there. My feet were never dry. This is why everyone else is wearing sensible waterproof boots.

- Bergdorf Goodman, Spring 2009


That's all for now. More to come on Oxford's morbid campus and ruminations on the lace dress. Stay tuned!

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Besos! - Skyler

http://www.theseearthlybodies.com/