Sixties fashion - Inspired by The Trial of Christine Keeler

[Uhohmummy]

I’m loving the current BBC drama on the Profumo affair. I also love the costumes! Christine’s coats and dresses are beautiful. Any idea where I can find bracelet sleeve cocoon coats and elbow length shift dresses?

[SummersMahoosiveClipOnFringe]

Boden

[ChrissieKeller61]

I can confirm the dresses would be so easy to make. The patterns still online and could whip one up in an afternoon

[TheSummoningDark]

It's a coincidence this has popped back up now, I saw this SilkFred dress and thought of this thread earlier.

[eddiemairswife]

Late 50s.....full skirts with lots of paper nylon waist slips. Early 60s.... short shift dresses with tights replacing stockings and those horrible suspender belts.

[loulouwadd]

I'm very late to the thread but there are some companies that do some fabulous reproduction vintage clothes and they might have some reproduction dresses and coats that are similar to what you are looking for :
www.collectif.co.uk/
www.lindybop.co.uk/
www.voodoovixen.co.uk/
hellbunny.com/

[BloomedAgain]

Hmm. Sounds like I might need longer and thicker hair.

[Itsashame]

I had the bump it’s. They work ok with a ponytail as you can cover the bump it and it stays in place. Didn’t work at all for hair down though, the wind would blow and it would be exposed, or it would fall out!

[BloomedAgain]

Ah yes I think I've seen those advertised. I can imagine them flying off my head on a particularly bumpy bus journey.

[TheSummoningDark]

There are hair volumising inserts (Bump Its or similar?) which are meant to be an easy way to a 60s bouffant style.

I don't know how well they stay in.

[Itsashame]

Another one here who loves longer length leather gloves with shorter sleeves. I’ve got a black pair and a grey pair

[BloomedAgain]

That's a commitment flo. I need my beauty sleep too much. I would love to start wearing long white gloves!

[Floisme]

I draw the line at a frame handbag and a hat like a swimming cap but I do like the long gloves - they add a bit of drama but, more importantly, they're practical too. M&S did some lovely leather ones last winter, elbow length. Don't know if they repeated them this year. I keep everything else modern to avoid looking too fancy dress.

[MoltonSilver]

I was thinking how nice the bracelet
and elbow lenght sleeves are but I'm not sure useful they would be now apart from in better weather. They used to wear gloves a lot more back then. If you did the gloves with it now it would look too much like a costume.

[Floisme]

My mum and my sister used to put rollers in their hair every night Bloomed and sleep in them. Not sponge rollers either - they were hard and prickly.

[BloomedAgain]

Thanks! I'll have to practice. This must be an improvement on my attempts at blowdrying.

[BoreOfWhabylon]

Heated rollers with dry hair also used to work, Bloomed.

The main thing is the backcombing all over and smoothing

[BloomedAgain]

Thanks @BoreOfWhabylon I have been given a hooded dryer as I have joint problems so I might be able to give myself a 'wet set'. I wonder if I should use a more modern alternative to setting lotion though.

[queenofarles]

I find Etsy so much better for vintage clothes. So probably try there first.

[queenofarles]

Don’t be so specific in your search, these styles were big again in the 80s and early 90s. So you really don’t need to search for stuff just made in that era.
If you will search online first, type 'vintage Cardin, Saint Laurent coat' or any 60s designer you liked, they did so many wonderful 60s style coats during the 80-90s all silk lined and made of wool/cashmere.

[VulcanRay]

I've got a couple of vintage 60s pieces from Blue 17 in North London

[BoreOfWhabylon]

I'd love to know how they styled her hair!

Hair would be set on big rollers with lots of setting lotion (Amami), then dried using hooded drier.

Once dry, brushed out, backcombed all over and then smoothed. Finish with lots of hairspray.

[Uhohmummy]

Wow you’ve inspired me! Any tips on where to look? I’m in London.

[Floisme]

They're usually much better made than anything on the high street now. You might find the fabrics a bit stiff and scratchy as no Lycra back then. Prices have gone up but still pretty reasonable. I've bought a couple of swing coats with bracelet length sleeves in the last few years - one was £40 and the other was under £20 in a weigh n' pay sale. You need to factor in cleaning.

[Uhohmummy]

Yes those are exactly the sort of styles I mean, queen. I just wonder if anyone is doing something similar now as I would think maybe the ones in charity shops/eBay now may be quite cheap fabrics and anything better made I probably can’t afford!
I am slim but curvy so the mini skirt/shift dress look isn’t something for me anyway. Maybe the look I’m after is more late 1950s/early 60s.

[queenofarles]

These are popular 60s styles, but they are actually from the 50s