Hook, Line, and Sinker

If you’ve been following the blog, you already know what a big fan I am of vintage/retro/rockabilly reproduction fashion.

Style eras that celebrate hips and tits are ones I need to be apart of! 😉

There are many UK clothing lines that specifically cater these styles.  I’ve got a Pintrest board dedicated to all my coveted retro frocks!

In fact, this was one of my pins …. was this dress by Collectif in London:

The Rowena Anchor Swing Dress … a nautical inspired halter neck frock with navy and red all over anchor print. With three pockets and a removable neck tie for a variety of different looks.  Isn’t it the cutest?

Well, a couple months ago Toronto Vintage Society co-hosted a BOOZAR night at the Gladstone Hotel, where I met the delightful Erin Loveless, owner of Loveless Boutique in Toronto who invited me to check out her shop as it happens to carry a selection of Collectif dresses!!! 😉

So I went to check them out and guess what I found in their sale rack……..

THE Rowena Anchor Dress!!!! ❤ ❤ ❤

Now granted the only size remaining was a 2x …and as you can see the only way it would fit my ample upper half was by unbuttoning from the collar down…

BUT I’m in love with this dress: hook, line, and sinker!!!  (yup, that was an anchor pun) 🙂

I’m really not a fan of having to wear a strapless bra … so I try and avoid buying clothes that force me to wear one.

I tried wearing this halter dress with a regular ol’ bra….since I had to wear a tank to fill in the giant-boobie-gap.  And this was the result:

Then I decided to buy a cheap tank, and cut off the strap to make it into a halter tank …. then wore my clear bra straps and THIS was the result:

Always nice having options that still allows you to wear a proper bra!

I kept the accessories simple with this frock – sometimes jelly shoes, sometimes sandals, with a cross body bag and minimal accessories.

OK. Now that you got a low down on What I Wore…. let me tell you What I Did while in this outfit 🙂

I happened to be out an about all day in this frock … and made my way to Nathan Phillips Square for a PanAm Concert one summer night…

To see THE ROOTS!!

Minus Canada Day in Ottawa, THIS was the largest crowd I’ve ever been apart of in a long, long time.

It seems I’m a big fan of Nautical Inspired looks – click here, here, here , here and here to see what I mean 😉

So waddya think?  Did I make a mistake buying a dress I couldn’t button up?  Or was my tank-top fix a good move?

Let me know by leaving a comment below friends.  Until next time…

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