Pink Vintage Dresses

I started collecting pretty vintage dresses last year.  I pick them up at thrift stores for a couple of bucks each.  It’s cheap retail therapy.  Which is the very best kind!  I have them all hanging up in Creamie’s closet, though there are a lot of them that aren’t her size.  I realized the other day that I have more than 50 pretty little dresses, all lined up in the closet. (photo inspired by Rachel‘s vintage here, vintage there photos.)

My little collection of pink dresses are my favorites.  I mean, how can you go wrong with little pink ruffles and polka dots and puffed sleeves?  You can’t.  That’s right, you can’t go wrong.

I can’t pick a favorite, I like them all.  But I find myself particularly drawn to smocked dresses.

I think more than half of my dress collection are smocked.  I think they are a classic that never goes out of style for little girls.

I took this picture of Creamie wearing one of my old dresses last September. (You can read that post here).  When she grew out of it I passed it onto my little sister.  Her little girl is just a few months behind Creamie and my sister wore this dress all the time when she was little too. ( And L-face, when you are done with this dress and if you aren’t planning on keeping it for your children’s children, you better give it back.  I have a good home for it.)

I found these two dresses at different stores a few months apart.  But they both have the same little flowers embroidered on them.  And the dress on the left is in a larger size, it will probably fit Creamie when she is four or five.  I’m not sure why, but vintage dresses for older girls are a lot harder to find.  Everytime I visit the thrifts I can find a dress for a smaller than my 2.5 year old.  But it’s only once in a great while I find one a little bit bigger.