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The Dress That Makes Me Feel Like a Princess

On Friday Mr Chick & I had been married for 5 years.

To celebrate we’d decided to head off to Cambridge for the night on the train for a nice romantic dinner and an overnight stay in a hotel.

I’d been a little stressed about finding something to wear. I don’t have anything that really makes me feel like a Princess or I haven’t worn a 1000 times already and I couldn’t really afford to buy anything new. Then on Thursday night I headed down to the Poppy Valentine Sale evening, and while I was there, just on a whim, I tried on one of her Doris Dresses. It was a gorgeous vintage brocade fabric, and it fitted like a glove. I knew I couldn’t leave it behind and a few frantic phone calls later my Mum agreed to buy it for me as Christmas present. Thanks Mum!

❤ Dress - Poppy Valentine ❤ Shoes - New Look ❤
❤ Bag - Accessorise ❤ Pearls - Vintage ❤

In classic “horrible orange hotel room lighting” style this picture is a very odd colour, but its gives you a better look at the dress

And these are the not so elegant outakes!

If anyone would like to invite me to any more events where I can wear this dress I am desperately looking for more excuses. I also bumped into Claire from Poppy Valentine at the Little Vintage Lover Fair and got a sneak peek at some beautiful red vintage brocade she’s planning to make as a Christmas version of the dress (must start saving now!)

I’ll leave you with some little collages of pictures I took while in Cambridge. As you can see we enjoyed cocktails on the train from our homemade portable cocktail cabinet. I tweeted a photo of it on Friday. The writing on the ceiling is in the Eagle pub and was done by American Airmen during WWII using lighters (what terrible vandals!)

26 replies on “The Dress That Makes Me Feel Like a Princess”
  1. says: Jo Bryan

    You look so gorgeous and yes I see princess, what a fab dress very festive with a stole in December.
    Glad you had a lovely time.

  4. says: Rebecca

    The dress suits you so well. I understand why you couldn’t leave it behind. It’s one of those pieces you’ll love forever 🙂

    Happy anniversary!

  5. says: Kate

    Yay for moms and early Christmas gifts! That’s how I got my Fluevog boots 🙂

    The dress is astounding – it looks like it was made for you! And I actually quite like that first outtake pic – it reminds me of one you’d see on Shorpy.com or myparentswereawesome.tumblr.com – one of the vintage photos sites 🙂

  6. says: Fashion Limbo

    wow, where do I start? such a wonderful dress! and I’m loving your hair right now sooo much.
    And in the very last picture, in the train, you are STUNNING.
    Lovely post 🙂

  9. says: Kirstin Marie

    I love this. You look so retro, its amazing! Your hair in that last photo is gorgeous. I’ve always wanted to do something like that with my hair, but I don’t think it’s possible.

    I am following!!!:)

    xoxo

  12. says: Len

    Oh Retrochick!!!! You look awesome!!!! I love your Poppy Valentine dress!!! I am so jealous!!!! You look so beautiful as ever! Thanks for sharing these pics. Love them, love them!!! 🙂

  13. says: bunny

    You really look gorgeous in that dress!
    Happy anniversary then!!!

    I also love your hair colour, which goes along with your new dress 😉 !!!

    B.

    P.S. What is the lipstick you were wearing? I like its red!

  17. says: kerry

    I can’t even start to explain how much I want a portable cocktail cabinet after reading this!! I *need* one!!

    What cocktails did you make?!! can we see more pics of the cabinet? ohhh how fabulous. Having had a bit of a nightmare train jorney at the weekend I can’t tell you how much a cocktail on route would have helped!

    a-hem….excuse the over excitement….

  19. says: Cath

    OMG! What a co-incidence… I just read another vintage (bridal) blog and saw some Poppy Valentine and thought ‘I must go there next time I’m in Norwich’… and then stumbled upon this! It must be fate! What a devine shape, Doris is an amazing dress.

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