Curation + Inspiration

In one scene from Sex and the City 2, Samantha and Miley Cyrus both arrive at a Red Carpet event wearing the same dress. Fashion disaster, right?

I mean, a dress would have to be super-extraordinary to transcend the decades (and years of gravity!) that stand between a teenager and a woman in her fifties. And this particular dress, cut up to here and down to there, fell far short of that super-extraordinariness.

Let’s face it. Some dresses are just Young. Fresh. Youthful. They’re made to be worn during that time of innocence before life jades a girl with all its hard knocks.

And call me be old-fashioned, but after staring with horror at the prom dresses that Google showed me recently, my advice to the tens of thousands of gals shopping for prom dresses this year is this:

Go ahead and be a girl! There’s plenty of time to be a woman in the years ahead.

The designers of yesteryear, of course, understood this. I dare you to find a 1950s or 1960s prom dress cut up to here or down to there!  Which is not to say that these dresses didn’t show some skin. Or couldn’t make a girl feel glamorous. But they also weren’t designed to be appropriate for the Hollywood starlets of the era who were long out of high school.

Now I’m not suggesting that every girl don something frilly (or “flurry” as my daughter used to say). But for gal who appreciates nostalgia, likes pretty, feminine things, and isn’t afraid to take her time growing up, then traditional vintage can truly be her friend.

Take today’s VPOD for instance.

This 1960s prom dress in baby pink is oh-so-pretty and a refreshing option for a gal who wants to convey the message of pretty princess and not sexy siren.

It’s a beautiful age-appropriate find for a teenage vintage fashionista!

Available at Spanish Moss.

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