Summer on the High Street – Vintage Inspired Novelty Prints
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Summer on the High Street – Vintage Inspired Novelty Prints

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!

seaside

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!

joules

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!

house print

 

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!

cath

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.

oasis

 

 

23 Comments

  • 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.

  • Margaret July 15, 2013

    Very lovely dresses 🙂 I especially like the first and second one ^^

  • vintagefrills July 15, 2013

    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

  • Floyd Gary Clyne July 16, 2013

    Retrochick these are all lovely prints! love your blog layout – flows easily.

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