Vintage Clothing Design Forum

One of the other reasons I have been a tardy blogger of late is the new Vintage Design Forum I've launched on Bowerbird Vintage.

My idea behind the forum when we built the site was to get visitors (and customer's) involved in the reworking of some of the vintage garments in my "Rescued by Bowerbird" label. I thought it would be a fun way to get a little community spirit happening!

It works like this:

First of all I post a few pictures of a dress with details of size, fabric, style etc then it's open forum with blog style commenting from anyone who wants to help out with advice. Once there are a few ideas thrown around I spend time playing around with the frock and seeing which ideas are going to work best. I then start chopping and pinning away frantically and then re post images of the changes. People can then offer further advice and so on (ie; we keep going til everyone decides we have a finished product)

Once there is a unanimous YES - It's tops! then it will be sold in the Rescued by Bowerbird range for anyone to buy!

The first vintage dress to be reworked (which was posted last week) has been this little monstrosity...a classic early 1970's deluxe boho creation that reminds me of somethng Stevie Nick's would where when she was part of Fleetwood Mac in their heyday! (actually, she'd probably still wear it!)

The fabric itself is actually really beautiful and the dress is in perfect condition. Because there is so much fabric I saw loads of potential for improvements.
So far there has been lots of comments and advice, plenty of cutting and pinning and a bit more advice....
Now, it looks like we (almost) have a new reworked vintage dress perfect for a night out on the town!

It's only pinned at the bottom at the moment and the collar is not sewn on...waiting on approval and further advice! So if you have a moment log on to the forum and let me know what you think!