Monday, May 30, 2011

The Daily Dress: Dita in Dior

Happy Memorial Day! I thought we'd commemorate with a look that seems very WWII era to me. This is Dita Von Teese at Coachella this year, wearing Christian Dior RTW from Spring 2011. I love the subtle Hawaiian print of this jumpsuit and the sailor hat she paired it with. Plus: espadrilles!


The styling of this show was fabulous; I loved the hair and accessories.




For your own take on this look, I would pair a tropical-ish print like this one:


Pair it with a retro romper pattern like M6331:


Top it off with a jaunty sailor hat (I'm sure you've got a few of those around, right?) and you're done!

Have a lovely day, all!

18 comments:

  1. Happy Memorial Day! I love how she wears DIOR to a outside concert.

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  2. I love the blue pants in the third picture - those are definitely going in my sewing inspiration folder!
    I'm with Erika - wearing Dior to a dirty, sweaty, outside concert - LOVE! When I grow up, I'm definitely going to be that stylish.

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  3. funny enough, since my high school mascot was "The Skippers" (I kid you not) I might just have a dixie cup sailor hat stashed somewhere...

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  4. Oooh. But the only tropical fabric in my stash is a heavy rayon swim material..Although the background color is yellow...

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  5. I love the outfit in the 3rd pic - could really see myself wearing something like that. Like the hats, too! Have a great holiday!

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  6. Great outfits! Seeing pictures of Dita makes me want to dress more feminine than I have been.

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  7. I love nautical outfits. If you don't have half a dozen sailor caps, you can always make one (I'm tempted): http://sweetteakisses.tumblr.com/post/1399601039/round-sailor-hat

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  8. Funny, that pattern is on my to make list for the summer. I'm still not sure about rompers for adults but we shall see.

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  9. That pattern looks so great. I've had this brown tropical floral in my stash forever that I've been dying to make into one.

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  10. great retro look. I would need to go to the local amusement park to come up with the sailor hat, and of course, they paint your name on it!

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  11. I love the spring summer 2011 collection from Dior more than anything I have seen in a long time.

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  12. I am a sucker for anything nautical, so those outfits make my heart sing! Love them! :]

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  13. Oh man you gotta stop posting the Dita outfits. I wanna make them all! I'm still working on the lookalike orangey-red Roland Mouret. It's coming along pretty good and I'm very excited about it.
    Posted a picture of the muslin so far in my Flickr

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  14. So gorgeous- I WISH I could pull off a play suit like that. And in the orange - fabulous! I love these DVT outfits you've been posting recently.

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  15. thanks for this post! I have been wanting to make a romper for a long time so I went out to joanne to buy the mccall pattern you posted- it's adorable, can't wait to make it<3

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  16. That collection is exactly what triggered my question to you about high-waisted sailor pants! I just LOVE those blue pants. So far I've collected a couple of pattern options but I'm definitely still looking for one that's more like the Dior look there.

    Dita can wear anything and look good, IMO, but I think for my own outfitting I'd go a bit less literal and skip the hat. Unless I was attending a marine event, but since I'm landlocked in Phoenix, that seems unlikely!

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  17. I just got that pattern! I'm planning to do it in chambray. I made a hawiian print romper last summer. Now is the time to bust it out.

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  18. I've been working on making up that very pattern! In a polka dot though... (Although I think I may have run into a snag and run out of fabric. *sigh*) Love the Dior version Dita wore--and it makes me want to dig out all the sailor hat castoffs I've snagged from my husband over the years. hehe!

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