Vintage glam comes of age for teens

Evi Mariani, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Girls, watch Marilyn Monroe's Some Like It Hot or Ingrid Bergman's Casablanca this weekend to upgrade your fashion vocabulary.

Rustle through your grandmother's wardrobe for Marilyn's feminine dress and Ingrid's pearl choker. For shoes, you can look through your mother's collection to find vintage-style high-heels and turn her make-up case upside-down for lipstick in fire-engine red.

Afterward, indulge yourself. Go to an accessory boutique and buy yourself a bag fit for a lady of the 1930s and 1940s.

Assembling them all together into a glam outfit, you will surely feel as feminine and flirty as sexy Marilyn or as elegant and graceful as glamorous Ingrid.

"Vintage glamour, or vintage glam, is in vogue now. We have covered the issue in a number of editions," Seventeen feature editor Prameshwari.

Seventeen is a fashion and beauty magazine dedicated to girls aged 15 to 22. The principle Seventeen magazine in the U.S. changed its logo last year and suggested its sister companies in 14 other countries, including Indonesia, to follow suit.

"That's why we picked 'Vintage Glam' as the theme for our new logo launch party," she added.

Many of the young women attending the Seventeen launch party on Feb. 19 arrived adorned with a long necklace of white pearls.

Several wore flowing, feminine dresses to match the theme, from among which the magazine's fashion editors picked out four lucky girls as the best-dressed.

One of the winners was confident enough to wear a pair of pink socks with purple high-heels, and accentuated her outfit with a fur stole around her shoulders.

Vintage glam accessorizing tips:

Shoes: Try dance shoes in girlie pastels, classic two-tone shoes, peep-toe sling-backs with bows

Bags: Clutch bags in soft leather updated with accents like gold lettering and decorative metal clasps, vintage lady's bags in a boxy shape.

Jewelry: Multiple rows of beads strung extra-long strung like a pearl necklace