I bought my first Samantha Sung dress at least 15 years ago. I don't know if they were fashionable then or if they are fashionable now. I like, and have always liked, since my late 20s very feminine 1940s and 1950s style dresses. The dresses currently on Samantha Sung are the same style as the ones I bought years ago.
samanthasung.com/en-gb/collections/dresses#651
Palava do the same
palava.co/collections/womens-dresses
www.edinaronay.com/ss-17.html#/
Edina Ronay does the same for 1940s dresses.
My most recent purchase was this Eponine dress at the end of 2022
It's a floral midi dress - worn with high heels - which according to some self appointed fashionistas on here are so "dated"
eponinelondon.com/collections/aw22-ready-to-wear/products/queen-mab?variant=43498022863070
I'm not going to ditch any of my Samantha Sung, Edina Ronay, Eponine or Palava dresses because some random influencer or MN poster says they are "dated"
My shoes are mostly from Pretty Ballerina or LKB Bennet low to mid heel courts. The sort of shoe which could easily be Tardised back to the 50s and 60s and would fit right in. As I have a lot of shoes they don't get heavy wear and some are years old. I'm not going to stop wearing them and start wearing trainers or platform soles because some random influencer or MN poster tells me they are "dated"
Yesterday when I went out I was wearing, over a Palava dress, a Max Mara camel icon coat and Joseph Cheaney flat lace up boots and a Hermés scarf. Max Mara and Joseph Cheaney may have made minor tweaks to their coats and boots over the years but on a casual glance I'd guess it's probably impossible to tell when an item was issued. As for Hermés, I defy anyone other than the Hermés archivist to place a date on them. My first one is over 30 years old and regularly worn.
On my head I wore a dramatic large brimmed, felt hat with a feather in it, bought from a hatter's shop. I think large, brimmed , dramatic felt hats stopped being fashionable pre- WWW II. The first time I wore it a teenage girl told me it looked fabulous.
I wear proper felt hats from a hat shop in the cold months. Some of them must be at least 2 decades old. If anyone is familiar with the work of the Scottish colourist painter F C B Cadell and "the black hat paintings" that's what my hats are like. I've even been told I looked like someone from his paintings.
I don't wear as much tailored work wear as I used to but when I did most of it was from a shop in Amsterdam called Pauw. Pauw's by line was dramatic military style jackets, exaggerated shapes, lots of tailoring and complicated skirts , some of which even came with instructions. I still have all of them - although unfortunately they don't fit but they're too beautiful to throw out. Pauw still does the jackets although the complicated skirts have gone.