Vintage Here, Vintage There: A Vintage Easter

This week's VH,VT post is dedicated to vintage Easter outfits! Whether you celebrate Easter at church or at home, it's a great reason to dress up for an extra special occasion so Rubyellen and I thought it'd be fun to share what we're dressing our kiddos in this year.

I've got a little bit of a stock pile of pretty spring dresses for Ruby to wear. A few of them were purchased recently from Etsy but most were local finds or gifts.

Many of them I've had since we found out we were having a girl almost a year and a half ago and they've still got some growing room because we've got a petite little girl on our hands.

I was originally going to take photos of the dresses and thought I'd get some props out to make it more fun but Ruby jumped right in and started playing quietly with her Easter eggs. So, I carefully turned her around for better light and took advantage of her sitting still to get some fun Easter shots!

In the above photos, Ruby's wearing a vintage gingham dress that I found locally, thrifted seersucker bloomers, and sandals from Target. The vintage sand bucket was found in Pauls Valley, OK.

I did an ad trade for two sweet vintage dresses from Blue Bird Lucy's that were extra special and then purchased one from Ms. Tips vintage (all in the same day) to make sure one of the three fit. The one above is from Ms. Tips and is still a little big but the shape of it allows for the sash to tighten it a bit and make it work. One of the other two will probably fit by the end of the summer and the other can be next year's Easter dress!

I told Kim of Blue Bird Lucy's that I'd love to have them all out on display but I doubt Sebastian would be excited about staring at dresses all of the time.

I love the detail on this dress. Even the back is pretty.

The above are all the dresses I pulled to have her try on today to make sure we were set for Sunday. On more than one occasion I've planned way ahead in gathering things and then forgotten something like matching tights or the shoes were suddenly too small or the cardigan to go over something was dirty. Ruby was a good sport about letting me dress and undress her and towards the end I could just tell one was going to be too big.

I rarely have luck finding vintage shoes locally but we do find a lot of shoes at our local consignment and thrift stores. Lately I've been finding things a few sizes too big that she can grow into so I headed off to the mall last weekend to find her something to match her dresses. I came home with the light pink pair of patent leather shoes from Old Navy and then went back earlier today for a pair of darker pink shoes for her more casual dresses. The sandals were from Target a few weeks ago. This girl is set for the next few months unless her feet decide to grow all of the sudden!

It may be a little close to Easter to guarantee a vintage dress or shoes makes it to your house in time but here are some of my favorites from Etsy vintage shops.

Dresses: lemon chiffon, pink ruffles, drop waist, pink gingham and lace, sheer white, lilac, yellow smocked dress, pink chiffon, mint romper, pixel dress.

For the little men: shorts with suspenders, vest and pants, romper, shirt and bow tie, blue baby suit, striped dress shirt, shorts suit, bow tie, blue jumper.

Shoes: pink jellies, Stride Rites, navy Walkrights, eighties does fifties, huaraches, more vintage jellies, suede moccasins, saddle shoes #1, saddle shoes #2, fancy and metallic.

As far as my own Easter dress, the jury is still out. Really, I just haven't gotten that far yet! I'm sure I have something perfectly lovely already in my closet that just needs a little taken in at the bottom so I'll be sure to share what we all ended up in next week.

Be sure to check in over there with the Bratchers later to see what they're doing for Easter this year!

Do you already have Easter Sunday outfits figured out at your house?

xoxo,
Rachel