Accessories To Complete That Vintage Look

A luscious full dress fitted tight at the waist is today’s most flattering and up-to-the-minute silhouette and every girl should have at one in her collection. The problem is, and it’s often a big problem, what accessories do you wear to complete that vintage look and stop the whole thing looking naff?

Well, the worst thing you can do is pile on the accessories simply because you don’t know what else to do; in fact, it’s usually better to choose just one or two pieces that subtlety say ‘vintage’ without going too far. Looking around the blogs I found some great ideas and one of them was to use a stylish and very vintage looking bracelet and combine that with a vintage style handbag and smart fashionable shoes.

But the same problem always surfaces; finding the right accessories for the right period at the right price is seldom easy and rarely instantaneous. That’s why I like to look at what’s available new right now and choose items that look, or are styled as, vintage. The bracelets I had in mind need to be very 60s and so I would choose ones that are primarily geometric. To give you an idea of the type of bracelet that I mean look that these ones below which are from the jewellery section at Amazon UK. (For those readers in North America, please choose Amazon.com and search for ‘vintage bracelets’ to see a similar selection.)

Or perhaps this one:

Or, finally, this one:

Geometric jewellery seems to say vintage more than any other and any one of these items or similar ones will help make you look good and complete that authentic vintage look.

The heading photo is from my friends at Castaway Vintage in New York where you will find some of the best in ‘castaway’ vintage clothing and accessories. The link to the photo on Flickr is here.