Swinging Sixties Star Trek Dress

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This amazing dress or tabbard is original Sixties and it’s so much fun to wear. It reminds me of the original Star Trek costumes for the beautiful alien princesses. Amazing interstellar designers, obviously.

Sixties tabbard
Sixties true vintage
Floaty psychedelic dress

I was given this by a friend who wore it the first time round, and I’m so glad she kept her favourite things. The pattern and colours remind me of vintage Pucci.

Blue sandals – La Redoute

Gold slingbacks – Clarks

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Sixties Pucci

I have a nude coloured slip and a cream shift that I can wear under this dress, as it is sheer and has long slits up both sides. The neckline is sequinned and the only thing that stops me wearing this more, as it looks dressy.

I wore this first to a fancy dress party, which broke it in, and got me used to the brightness and sparkles. I’d love to make or find a catsuit/ unitard to wear underneath for a more comfortable, lounging outfit.

Any ideas where I could find one? I think I’ve seen a dress pattern for a unitard, but it would be so much easier to buy one. Any Emma Peelers out there?

 

Summer Going Out Dresses

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I recently had the chance to dress up for a weekend in Devon. I took my orange ‘Paris When it Sizzles’ Audrey Hepburn dress and a floaty peach dress. I also made a new dress with some vintage lace fabric.

Audrey Hepburn style dress
‘Paris When It Sizzles’ dress

Wearing with pearl clip on earrings from a vintage fair, Next kitten heels and underpinnings all from What Katie Did.

Seventies style pleated summer dress
With box jacket and gold heels

Worn with matching flower headband, coral chandelier earrings (matching No.7 nail polish), pink rose ring and belt from another dress. The box jacket is more Sixties but the colours go perfectly. I think the tailoring grounds all the floatiness! I’m wearing my gold Marilyn Monroe heels, from ‘Bus Stop’. I got these from Topshop.

‘Gambit’ dress
White lace Sixties dress

As I don’t have a bob like Shirley Maclaine in ‘Gambit’, I wore my hair in a big bun instead of a beehive. I’m really pleased how this project turned out, even though I’m sure the original doesn’t have a zip up the back. I couldn’t see how to get my head through the mandarin collar without it! Worn with Marilyn style sandals from Dune, in place of white slingbacks, which I’m still hunting. See my Marilyn Monroe Sandals post for close-ups of them.

Watch the films and see what you think of the original dresses. I ‘researched’ these films to draw out my patterns and make the dresses. How did I do?