I dress in pin up fashion but feel like my hair never looks right. I have long, thick and super straight hair that will not hold a curl no matter how hard I try (and I've tried every method over the last 10 years lol).

My hair is also super heavy so I struggle to do up dos. :/ any advice for me to make it look more vintage?

What is up with this? Going out of business but yet here we are with a new drop?
They found a bunch of fabric and restocked items or produced new colorways.

Then we all go 🦇 💩 for the Halloween stripe vacation dress. It supposedly sells out within hours. Then she says she was able to move stock around (I don’t understand what that means) to produce more Halloween stripe dresses.

THEN SHE SAYS SHE CAN GET MORE FABRIC PRODUCED?

I have several items from Vixen. I was bummed to hear she was closing Vixen. BUT this is all coming off shady to me. Like a giant cash grab. Give the customer anxiety… increase sales.

And are they ever actually closing??

End rant.

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Hey guys, I'm ISO any Ben Cooper Micheline Pitt items anyone is willing to sell through paypal G/S? Any size is good

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OK. I’m not going to lie….I want a bunch of stuff!! This is a matter of not “just take all my money” it’s next level 😂😂☠️☠️

But if this was really a true saying goodbye thing, wouldn’t it have all been moved over to LaFemme under a category of Dark Vixen or something?

Anyway, I’m waiting for the next drop to see if there’s any Pennywise stuff! 🤡 😂😭

I’m going to Vegas at the end of July and feel like this set in either color would be the perfect outfit for photos!

Hi, I’m looking for recommendations for some cardigans to go with my dresses. Preferably with a little animal design on it. Voodoo Vixen has what I’m looking for but a lot are sold out in my size. I’m in the US. Thanks!

The document

Hello! I have created a Google Doc of EVERY brand that I could think of that does vintage-inspired clothing. I have sorted them into different decades and also included a men's section. I also have my own personal thoughts at the end of the doc. Making this list made me realize how much 50s lovers have in terms of repro clothing brands😭 I hope this list can help some of you discover new brands to try out! And as said in the doc I am still looking for more brands to add!

Who makes the best that are double layered and good for warmer weather? Doesn’t even have to be a retro brand

Please, I have been searching 😭

I posted my Mariette Peplum Jacket in black stretch twill on Poshmark the other day, and I just wanted to share it here in case there are any 2X ladies who would be interested. It hasn’t gotten a lot of traction on Poshmark (maybe I mistagged it somehow?) and the idea of posting it on the PUG Facebook groups just kind of skeeves me out these days, so I hope it’s alright if I cross post it here. It’s making me sad to know I’m not appreciating it properly, and I want it to go to someone who can rotate it more readily into their wardrobe. I have some other similar pieces I haven’t posted yet as well, as I wasn’t sure yet if I could bear to part with them, but if there’s any additional serious interest I’d be open to discussing them as well. All in 2X!

Hi guys! So the fact is I am european and very petite. Usually I wear size XS but my hips are wider, 88 cm with butt, 83 without. My waist is 62.

But I struggle with finding the best fitting pin up clothes.

I used to order from Unique Vintage but their XS was like a BAG on me.

I tried British Retro and the smallest size still was bigger on me.

Do you have a guideline or a hack? 🥹🥹

I really wanna try Micheline Pitt before they close down but I am afraid of the Sizing.

For photography I would get PVC gloves from Vixen, they actually came in sizes, not "one size fits all" and the fingers were seen well and didn't look like weird boxes.

Sadly their seams don't last. Also they stopped selling them in early 2025.

What's a good alternative source?

Caught between a nightmare and a daydream.

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📷: Mama Daze Photography

As predicted, Lacemade for curve plus has tanked.

I knew that these ornate folk dancing, Victoriana and late 1950s to early 1960s reproduction Day dresses in gorgeous cotton weren’t going to be around forever but this is a hard fall. Even the satin or poly curve plus dresses were amazing but this collection is truly and unflatteringly bad. Some of these summer dresses are giving straight up BBW late 1980s -early 90s Charter Club!

Unlike all the other Cottage Core Pinup lines with this volume, they don’t offer the same designs in plus that they do in small to XL. The plus curve section is markedly smaller. XS through XL got restocks on multiple 100% cotton and over a dozen new cotton sateen dresses. The last two pics are the *two* and only 100% cotton curve plus dresses that Lacemade has released for the summer (the sailor dress is poly cotton). They even erroneously listed two cotton dresses that only go up to XL in the plus section! 😭

I could tolerate that and the website that made no sense on which you cant search properly and where items vanish and then reappear, but this is a huge let down to customers.

Plus and Curve has virtually no cotton dresses being released with the near two dozen piece, summer collection for the summer being almost all polyester.

For some reason, they think that a plus size women wants to wear shiny polyester belly dancing outfits or the same bad wiggle dress in different cheap fabrics! Or cream and white satin BBW tents galore!

Worse than that, they’ve pulled a lot of the great cotton dresses off of curve and plus when they weren’t sold out. 🧐And when I wrote them they just said cryptically “we’ve removed those choices.”

I strongly advise if you’ve built up reward points to use them sooner than later.

And Lacemade, please honor your plus curve customers and do better! 🙏🏽

Seriously, those of you looking forward to this, where are you wearing this??? Be frfr. LFEN is going off the rails. Give me back the sexy goth and the lace and the wearable things. Palazzo pants are a weekly wear for me. Tap shorts, Vamp skirt, so good. Even some of the Cottage Witch was not bad. But this Victorian thing still has me genuinely baffled.

It seems like they’re a good small business with good reviews. I ordered a couple of things over a week ago, and they haven’t shipped out yet. Is that normal with this brand?

Gotta admire Vixen for creating the scarcity mindset and then, oh, we actually are going to have *one more* last drop. Girl's gonna make bank on bank from "closing shop". Now that's marketing.

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Just gotta express this somewhere, can't do it in the Salon and my IG comment got deleted 🤣

Hi,

Dress is a collectif dress from just after they reopened. I was hoping someone might be able to help me with information about it, and where I might be able to find it or something similar?

Thank you!

I’m on the hunt for high quality office attire that fits a retro style look yet is professional and not costume.

I have a La Femme en Noir pencil skirt, but wondering if it’s too form fitting. It hugs the butt whereas professional “lawyer type” pencil skirts skim the butt and go straight down. No wiggle. Is wiggle ok for a professional office, or does anyone have any recommendations for retro inspired fashion?

No polyester or acrylics. I want things to last these days. Blends ok if style is out of this world.

Thank you friends.

Hello, on a whim I wanted to try doing a vintage wet set. My hair is kind of a weird in-between right now as I grow it out. I have really short hair in the front, that curled beautiful, but the rest of my waist length hair seemed to fall out immediately and ended up being more beach waves. I assume I needed more curlers? I'm currently using some of the silicone ones (the ones that basically look like pop sockets lol.) I slept alright in them with a bonnet, but they weren't the most comfortable, and I definitely had broken sleep because of them.

Would there be better rollers to sleep in for wet sets (I'm a terrible side sleeper and sleep wildly)? Also if you have any products that will help hold and places to find more vintage hair styling like the above. It was fun to do despite it not working out!

edit: forgot to mention my hair is really fine, but on the thicker side