Ida Cathrine

Wedding ready 🌿 Vintage ballet costume in gradient green silk chiffon 🩰 . . #vintage #vintageballet #vintageballetcostume

Vintage flatlay - Wedding guest edition! We are attending a wedding today (with no particular dress code) ✨I ended up choosing this vintage silk chiffon ballet costume in gradient pale green tones. I assume it is from the 60s, but it feels sort of timeless and nymph like 🩰. Wearing it with these secondhand pale green designer heels with crystal bows, that I bought in my late teens 🎀. I try to avoid hair flowers and headbands etc for weddings, as it can be very bride like, so opting for my leaf dress clips (worn as hair clips in the front hair) and a giant pale green leaf for the other side instead 🌿. . . #vintage #vintagewedding #vintageweddingguest

Pale pink silk 🩰 Vintage 1930s puff sleeves and silk satin 1930s trousers 🫧🐚 . . #vintage #vintagesilk

My favorite 1930s jacket (from a dress set) worn with Edwardian corset cover (embroidered with “Ida”) and silk chiffon skirt 🎀🫧 . . #vintage #vintagefashion #balletfashion

Late summer means wearing this jacket as an actual jacket 🎀 It is part of an amazing late 1930s dress set but worn here with Edwardian camisole (with my name embroidered) and secondhand silk chiffon Dior skirt 🩰🫧 . . #vintage

So. This is a tale probably familiar to most vintage wearers. I take pride in taking good care of my stuff. I almost never spill and I always dress with what kind of hazard my outfit might get into in mind. But some things are just out of one’s control with items this old even with a lot of care and experience. Some fragilities often appear in the wash. You might remember I posted two twin 1930s dresses. Shortly thereafter the skirt fabric of one of them fell completely apart during cleaning. I was completely devastated, but decided to keep the intact silk chiffon top part and make it work as a blouse. Thankfully it really did! Luckily I still have the other one to keep as a dress and the skirt fabric feels completely different 🙈🩰✨ . . #vintage #vintagefashion #shellbag

The magic of finding vintage and antique items that literally have your name on it 🎀 This Edwardian corset cover camisole has the daintiest embroidery spelling «Ida» ✨. A very popular Scandinavian name and also common in North America at that time because of the huge surge of Scandinavian emigration to the States. This was sourced from the UK, but might just be Scandinavian? What a lucky coincidence either way. It came without a ribbon through the straps (I don’t think the pink silk one is original, but it is very cute) so I put in a pale green one, making it very Marie Antoinette’sque all of a sudden 💫🩰 . . #vintageembroidery #vintagecorsetcover #vintagecamisole #edwardian

Late 1950s organza confetti dress 🎉 I’ve had this for ten years and always marvelled it still fits, it has probably been a prom or dance dress for a teen and has a boned bodice that fits very tight 🩵 . . #vintage #vintagedress #vintagepromdress

Vintage late 1930s midnight blue puff sleeves with shooting star chatelaine brooch 💫✨🌟 . . #vintage #vintagedress

This photo gave me such a late 2000s blogger vibe! Vintage late 1930s midnight blue dress and multi buckle heels 🎀 . . #vintage #vintagefashion

I love vintage twins 👯! It seemed highly unlikely I would get to have another one of my favorite pieces, but this 1930s nightgown, that I wear as a dress, recently emerged in a second iteration! This second one is a bit less pink, more of a ballet slipper color on the skirt and weirdly enough, it also feels more silky. The first one has a silk chiffon top, while the skirt feels like a high quality vintage rayon and silk blend. This second one feels way more silky which seems a bit odd. Maybe it’s just more worn as the color difference would suggest 🎀🩰 . . #vintage #vintagefashion #vintagedresses #vintageslip

Whenever I just wash and dry my hair in its natural state instead of setting it in a vintage curl pattern, I always struggle with what to wear 🎀 I ended up deciding to be a Barbie for the remainder of the summer warmth we have and wear my tulle swimsuit as a bodysuit, a ballet slipper pink silk mini skirt and heart bag 🩷🩰 . . #vintage #barbiecore #90stoys