I'm hoping to go to the above event next weekend. I've been to 3 Blitz parties so far and they've just been fabulous fun! Lovely lovely people, fantastic music, some wonderful dancers and a great time all round. The S.S Atlantica is organised by the same people who brought us the Blitz parties (and Prohibition, a '20s night that I've not had the pleasure of attending yet, but really want to!) and it looks fantastic.
But I need an outift. Ideally I'd love something flowing and silky and elegant, but that's not so easy to come across and my budget is rather restricted by my recently moving flat (and the fact that I may be unemployed come December...). For a while I thought about trying to track down a pattern and some material to make one, similar to Keira Knightley's green dress in the film "Atonement", but this soon fell through. Buying patterns and fabric is pretty much expensive as buying the dress ready made. I had a look around some of Soho's vintage and second-hand shops on a lunchbreak and came across Beyond Retro. I've not found much in here before, as I'm often a little bit too intimidated to even set foot in the place, but I stumbled across a blue wool dress there, and discovered that it fit me like a glove. It's very hard to place an era for it - I think the zip dates it as reasonably modern, but I also think it could get away with being a late '30s or '40s dress, even though it's got quite a fitted pencil skirt and 1930s dresses seem to be more fluted. It could even pass as a dress from the 50s. But I'm hoping with accessories, as shown in the photo below, I can get away with it. Although it's not nearly as formal as I'd like.
I wonder if there will be as many people at the 30s party, compared to the 40s? The Blitz parties were rather easier when it came to costumes, as there was a wider range and a lot of allied uniforms to chose from.
