Vintage glam comes of age for teens
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