Designer Inspired Styling With Vintage #1

Georgie Roberton
Jun 11, 2023
3 min read

Updated: Jun 19, 2023

Hey! I'm glad you're here, reading this and soaking up all I have to scream and shout about to do with styling, and using vintage or secondhand in this. I'm going to be writing about colour theory a little later, so stick around for that too ! It changed how I dress and what I look for in what I wear.

I ADORE fashion, the boldness, the experimentation, the wonder, the art, and all that goes with it and in between and around it. For me, it's all about feeling, and your clothing being such a huge part of that.

I find that colour and print really brings me joy, and that's what I've honed in on for Peony Vintage. I'm sort of a sniffer dog for anything bold and bright when I'm handpicking and sourcing, and seeing someone else's potential fear of how bright or loud something is, only makes me love it more! I'm heavily inspired by the 'eclectic aunt' vibes myself and my mum always gave off growing up, and how boring I found the 'jeans and a nice top' crew. Obviously, there is always time for jeans and a nice top btw, but I grew up in the 90s and as a child, the only thing I can remember about designer fashion was that everything was about wearing something once, and striving to be thin (neither of those I got along well with). I was around historical costume a lot also as a kid which heavily influenced by love for clothing and costume in general.

PRADA SS17

I'm obsessed with the SS17 runway looks from Prada, how stunning are they? The mix of tartans, feathers, colours, and accessories is so perfect in it's clashing and I really know so many of the pieces I've sourced for sale would work so well styling up in this way.

3'S NOT A CROWD

If you're going to go down this route of mixing and matching, I would use a rule of 3 as a starting point for most looks anyway but in this instance try :1 pattern, 1 texture, 1 colour. Ie, something tasselled that's brown, something blue, something patterned or printed. This doesn't mean you can't have something of the same colour throughout either, it's just a starting point.

Have those 3 all be varying, in order to create a look like this. Try it by picking one thing out in your wardrobe and then find 2 other things which are different to that, keep playing around and add or remove things as you go and you will eventually feel it when it's right.

See how I've styled this tartan dress using this rule of thumb-

1- Tartan print dress available here

2- Feather Texture

3- Introducing red which isn't involved in the dress or the feathered piece

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