Buy swing dresses online to augment your fashion wardrobe

Swing dresses are dresses that are based on the favourite style of the vintage fashion era. Many women in the forties and fifties wore dresses that were knee length and fitted at the waist after which the dresses started to flare out. This design allowed the dress to swing out when a woman displayed her dancing skills on the floor, which earnt them the name "Swing dress". The dresses of the 1940s were short due to cloth rationing because of the war, but in the 50s when the war was over they started to get fuller and bigger. A swing dress is based on the fit and flare style and women looked elegant in them when they swung about on the dance floor.

In the 1940s swing, dresses tended to be worn with low heeled shoes, stockings or seamed tights. But in the 1950s many women wore flat shoes and bobby socks as this gave them more freedom on the floor and both styles were still seen today in today’s vintage style fashion looks.

There is an important distinction in vintage fashion in that anything from before the 1920s is known as antique, and anything after is classed as vintage. When people refer to vintage clothing today, they tend to mean fashion that is inspired by styles from the 1940s and after. Many popular vintage fashion styles are based on those that were made famous by popular cinema stars like Audrey Hepburn, and Grace Kelly. Many of the true vintage clothing comes from old warehouse stocks nowadays, but you can also get hand or factory made clothing in the vintage style. Retro style clothing is a much sought after fashion with many contemporary women due to their elegance and their ability to accentuate the shape of women without being overly tight. There are a large number of variations offered for vintage dresses and online clothing stores stock a dizzying range of swing dresses inspired by vintage fashion but styled so that a contemporary woman can wear them and set the dance floor on fire.

It is easy to pick vintage clothes online, as they are the most searched for unlike brick and mortar stores that can be hard to find. However, true vintage dresses may have some differences in sizing as in the olden days a "medium" dress would now be labelled as an "extra small" Ladies who lived in the 40s and 50s tended to be smaller than ladies today due to rationing and corseted underwear, so sizes tend to run smaller on vintage garments than they do nowadays.

Vintage dresses are really in fashion nowadays, and there is a mind-boggling variety of them available at online stores that stock many classic dresses made famous by women from cinema and literature. It would be a great idea to expand your wardrobe with beautiful swing dresses as they are sure to divert the attention on to you when you step on the dance floor.

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