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60s/70s boho midi dress styles

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TheBookSlug · 08/04/2026 17:31

Exactly as the title says:
Please recommend good boho midi dresses, with short or long sleeves.

Like my Audible thread, I would like to have as many ideas, suggestions and recommendations as possible.

TIA

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GrinchoftheNorth · 08/04/2026 17:58

Not sure if it's the kind of thing you are looking for but there's some really nice thing on All About Audrey, I've been browsing today but haven't purchased yet so can't comment on quality

TheBookSlug · 08/04/2026 22:54

Their hippy style dresses are really lovely.
Unfortunately it looks like they are all maxi dresses and I am really short.
There are some things I could take up, others though it would wreck the pattern of the dress.

Boden has some and the shapes are great the patterns are similar to the faux older flocked wallpaper I remember seeing in my youth.
Even if I liked that pattern big prints look like they are swamping me!

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GrinchoftheNorth · 08/04/2026 23:04

I agree about the patterns, what has put me off purchasing so far is, what I would have looked amazing on me twenty years ago is not usually quite as kind on my middle aged paunch so I haven't bit the bullet to try any yet

TheBookSlug · 10/04/2026 07:17

@GrinchoftheNorth oh the fear!
Recently I bought a dress online.
When I tried it on I experienced the sharp pain of you’re too old for this style, you’re not in your 20s anymore.
Some things I can still get away with; but others? Not so much.

I had a fabulously eccentric Aunt.
She wore a lot of kaftans, even though it was the early 90s and kaftans were about 20 years out of date by then 🤣
In my minds eye I can picture her, wandering around her garden, kaftan billowing around her.
She was fabulous.

Either I embrace the mad old lady in a kaftan, or I give it a miss.
Part of me is tempted by the kaftans though.

Thanks @minipiethat would be perfect, except that orange, yellow and green look terrible on me. I’m going to reverse Google image search it and see what comes up.

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