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[randomness]

There is apparently quite a vintage clothing scene in Germany, with many niche labels doing a thriving business. This eye-catching dress just came across my Facebook feed. It's $119 (+ $12 shipping), made to measure from LolaBlossom, in Biebesheim (just outside Darmstadt) in Hesse. (Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/181126543/50s-vintage-wedding-dress-white-red). Oddly, it's more expensive from their own website (http://www.lolablossom.com/Basic-Petticoat-dress/uni-color-dress/Wedding-petticoat-dress-white-red::114.html): €139.99, I suspect because that price includes 19% VAT. Neither price includes a petticoat, which LolaBlossom only ships to European addresses.

Sadly, despite it being 100% cotton it is also handwash or dry-clean only. Possibly it's the satin ribbons?

(Reposting this to where bedfull_o_books can actually see it!)

Comments

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

That is adorable!

Isn't it just? I had to share.

[agrimony.livejournal.com]

Possibly they expect that with machine washing the red would stain the white.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

*nod* bedfull_o_books pointed that out, also.

[achinhibitor.livejournal.com]

Or that it's too physically delicate for machine washing. (The laundry that does my shirts told me that dry cleaning isn't intrinsically more expensive than water washing. But when you order "dry cleaning" you get hand-pressing rather than machine pressing, and some shirt materials can't take machine pressing, even though they're fine with water washing. And it's the hand pressing that makes "dry cleaning" more expensive.)

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

*stares greedily at that dress*

[muffyjo]

That's adorable. Do they have it in other colors, I wonder? I have a friend in Switzerland who would love it so I"ve passed it on. :)

[bedfull-o-books.livejournal.com]

Lots and lots of other colors. Soooooo pretty.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

They do many other colors and patterns, yes! Their Etsy site is easier to navigate, if you want to get a better idea.

I'm wondering--and this may be relevant to your friend in Switzerland--if they do fittings given that the dress is made to measure. Darmstadt isn't that close to Switzerland, as it's between Mannheim and Frankfurt, but if your friend happens to be up that way anyway...

[muffyjo]

"Isn't that close" meaning about 4 hours away, right? She works there now as a teacher and is having all kinds of adventures. She might like the adventure of it. Or simply to mail order it. It's all good.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

about 4 hours away, right?

Depending on where she is, yes. I've driven between Basel and Frankfurt, which is about three and a half hours straight down the A5, and Biebesheim is a good bit closer. It really depends on where in Switzerland she is.

But I don't know if they do in-person fittings at all.

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

made to measure? oooo