Vintage novelty prints just scream summer.
Think tiny sailing boats, strawberries or street scenes instead of your more common florals, spots and stripes. Unfortunately the vintage version is also highly sought after, so when you find them, they’re not often cheap.
Fortunately, their popularity also means the High Street starts to copy. A couple of years ago I got a superb skirt fom Primark, printed with a street scene, and with a bit of hunting you can track down vintage inspired novelty print dresses all over the place on the High Street.
Here’s my top picks.
Dickens and Jones Seaside Print Sun Dress £85 £42.50
It couldn’t get more perfectly summery than this seaside print sun dress, and it’s reduced!
Joules Sylvia Mock Wrap Dress in Ernie Print £69.95
The waist band is quite high on this, but it has a lovely pleated skirt, and just look at that print!
Almost Famous House Print Chiffon Dress £132 £66
The print on this is so subtle that you’d barely know it was anything much interesting, but when you get up close, it’s little houses!
Cath Kidston Seaside Cottage Stripe Button Dress £65 £45
Thankfully Cath Kidston isn’t always twee florals and polka dot bunting. This seaside cottage print is cute, but only available in sizes 6 and 16 at the moment!
Sicilian Knight Dress £55 £28
You need to be willing to show off your knees for this one, but it is Summer, so if you can face it this dress just has the most amazing novelty print.
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23 responses to “Summer on the High Street – Vintage Inspired Novelty Prints”
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@Retrochick_uk Aah I love them!
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@Retrochick_uk I find Oasis have good prints – I got a skirt there last year that would pass for proper vintage if it were long enough
If it were long enough, that’s always the problem!
Great examples! I am so smitten by that knight dress, sadly it’s not available on their US site! And I’m kicking myself because I saw that Cath Kidston dress when I was in the shop in Cardiff but I was so busy going gaga over other things (since it’s not easily available over here at all– we haven’t had the change to get sick of any of it yet, ha ha) that I passed right by it. Shame!
I must admit, I’m not sure I’d be half as interested in vintage fashions were it not for novelty prints! There is just something about them that absolutely sucks. me. in.
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@Retrochick_uk love the seaside and seaside town prints #gorgeous
@Retrochick_uk great piece! I love a fabulous novelty/scenic print. I think I know the skirt you mean New Look did a lovely Venice print too
@Retrochick_uk adore this post. Some really fun prints on there!
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Very lovely dresses 🙂 I especially like the first and second one ^^
These are all so beautiful! I love novelty print dresses. I own a few Cath Kidston dresses and they are such wonderful quality, they literally last for years. Great post! xxx
Retrochick these are all lovely prints! love your blog layout – flows easily.