Calling tea dress afficionados, where'd you buy 'em ?

[Msarsebiscuit]

Inspired by talk on here of tea dresses with opaques and boots, I'm seeing myself swanning around this Autumn , nicking your style.

I've had a quick trawl through t'internet and I can't find any that tickle my fancy, there seem to be plenty that will look kookyily stylish on a size 8, 5' 8" , 20 year old but will leave me - 5' 2", size 14 hourglass, big knockers, over 35 - cough, looking like Hilda Ogden ( one for the kids there ).

I'd like vintage inspired, rather than sludge coloured, 1940s authenticity and ideally cotton, cotton mix.

Fanks.

try lady vintage if you fancy a bargain. Not strictly tea dresses but good.

oops - here

Cath Kidston does lovely ones every season. Usually in a nice viscosey type fabric so they feel very 40s ish. I have a lovely yellow one which makes me feel like Big Bird Doris Day. I can't see much this season but worth keeping an eye out on the website.

Thank you, Procrastination, some of the dresses on there are really very pretty, I do have a couple of dresses in that vintage 50s, full skirted shape and I like them very much.

DrJohnsonscat, I think you might be one of the posters whose style I'm after stealing, I looked at the CK site after you mentioned it on another thread, although the CK one I really liked was on eBay but sadly,it was a size 10.

I don't think anyone's ever tried to steal my style before , mainly because I don't one .

But it sounds like we are coming from a similar place. I'm 5ft 7 so taller but also busty and somewhat rounded and have very bad legs so risk looking like a giant, heffalumping Tiny Tears doll if I wear anything cute that would look fantastic on Alexa Chung. I also fully got the Hilda Ogden ref so in the same age bracket.

FWIW this site is always worth keeping an eye one for replicas of vintage things - good for me because genuine vintage is usually too small. Nothing for me there right now but I like to keep an eye out.

www.silkandsawdust.com/category/Dresses,i.html

Off to duo now to find some boots to cover my ginormous calves while wearing gorgeous tea dress.

Oh yeah, I know the pain of the giant calf problem - inside, I am actually Alexa Chung, outside, well my hair's a bit Chung and that'll be it...

I love this one from Next- also available in a nice berry colour which would be lovely with tan accessories for autumn. And you can get it in tall if you're worried about flashing your pants.

Shit, thought you were the 5"7 poster....you can get it in petite, I mean (nice save :D)

Hi Msarsebiscuit how are you getting on with Tracey? :o

About your OP....I love a good tea dress and other than vintage stores, these are the other places I would recommend:

Brora
Toast
Boden (although I always end up taking them up to above the knee as length a bit frumpy on my short legs)
Great Plains
H&M
People Tree
ASOS (searching for midi dress rather than tea dress - you'll get more of a selection)

No, craicdealer, no chance of me flashing my pants (unintentionally) unless I decided to wear a pair of bloomers.
I like the colour of that dress vair much, I like berry shades, they suit my pasty celtic skin.

Ah hello, ujjayi, you threw me a bit then, all I could think about was mentioning Hilda Ogden and thinking you meant Tracey Barlow but then I am barking mad. Tracey and I are having a relationship in which I regularly shout ' No Tracey, you fascist ! ' and ' get stuffed, Trace' - not sure I'll ever get the hang of the standing abs. Fortunately I attempt it in private for fear of sectioning. How are you getting on ?

( and thanks for the ideas - I don't usually frequent the poshness of Toast and Brora but I'll have a look )

Msarsebiscuit - am strictly a "sale time only" gal with Toast & Brora myself.

:o at Tracey Barlow reference! I'm afraid you are way too polite with Ms Anderson. I construct entire sentences from expletives during my workouts with her. She remains unaffected and continues to torture me. I thought I had the hang of the abs.....until I watched myself in the mirror. And sadly I am still more Bill & Ben than Madge & Gwynnie.

I like the maintain the illusion for my delightful offspring that Mummy doesn't swear - as fucking if.

Yumi do a lot of lovely tea dresses, quite short though so best over leggings or tights unless you have supermodel legs!

Igglepiggle, my legs are so far from supermodel legs, it's unreal - think northern pit pony rather than Arabian thoroughbred.

Argh! Yet again I open an S & B thread, yet again I hear my credit card sobbing in terror.
Those Lady Vintage dresses are gorgeous!