I’ve been busy recreating Joan Crawford’s suit as it catched my eye.
The fabric I used has also blue and off white stripes. The matching flowers are also made of fabric.
Author: laurabakkerfashions
...After finishing the Art School of Maastricht in Holland with my Fashion & Teacher of Art Bachelor in my pocket, my fascination for the movie costumes of the 1930s until early 1950s got me in creating unusual vintage style outfits for myself and anyone who wants to look like a diva of the past.
Everything is made by only me, the patterns, the clothes and all the applications. Every item is made only once, my little personal war against all the big productions ;-)
I wish to offer all the ladies & gentlemen something special.
Drawing and creating mornin' noon and night...
Every person who' s interested in having a special and unique 1940s Hollywood style outfit can order one on measure, or just choose something ready made from my actual collection. Every item is made only once by me and no synthetic fabrics are used.
Please contact me with any questions!!!
Laura
Elegant & cozy winter coats
Raspberry wool swing coat
Wool gabardine in a great raspberry colour! Available now! Check details on Instagram or Etsy.
Be prepared for fall!
Ladies high waist slacks
Great ladies high waist slacks!
Navy colour summer weight wool crepe
Two pleats, hidden button fly, belt loops
Waist 65-66 cm
Hip max 100 cm
Leg 98 ( extra 5 cm in hem )
109€
Unique diva dresses.
Another great unique dress which looks very minimalistic but does great work on the body ist this new baby. All rayon, light cream, peach and black colours, with a metal zipper on the side and a beautiful cascade peplum!
Great coral red colour rayon gabardine dress with a little mid riff peekaboo! Elegant and comfy raglan sleeves with little hooks to close the narrow sleeves at the end.
Metall zipper on the side and self made crochet lurex silver gold decorations…
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Fabric loops
Oh how I love these fabric tubes!!! It looks so vintage and a lot of beautiful applications are possible! Also available on my website: loop dress
Bordeaux green loop application dress
Fall
Fall has come finally to wear coats, corduroy and bolero’s…here’s a preview of my collection. Enjoy!
september designs…
French 1940s style
As a half frenchy I like to try to put some 40s era ‘self made’ idea into the items. But it’s hard not to cross the edge of making it a too ‘poor’ or ‘dusty grandma-ish’ item. I like a good balance of elegance, sporty, feminin and a note of this make and mend flair of that time. That’s one of the many reasons I like the 40s style so much.
more on: www.laurabakker-fashion.com
Handpainting
…after a few years research about 1940s handpainting, I started first with a tiger blouse
then the panther blouse followed. After this, I could ´stand on my own´ and create different styles/themes which I worked with. It is not easy to find good fabrics with a very smooth surface to paint on. I always use rayon in different weights.
Then I made special blouses for costumers…
Fish print Tropical flowers 1940s Cocktails
However it makes a lot of fun to create painted blouses for dear customers, I have to be careful. I don’t like too much of anything. One of my important rules. So, I try to stop painting on blouses in this kind of style for a while.
Other orders I liked doing were these ones:
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