Now some people have mentioned wanting more vintage clothes videos

and what better time when my house is covered in clothes because we're moving!

No, genuinely, I am drowning in dresses!

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If you're new to this channel: Hi, I'm Jessica, and I'm obsessed with vintage fashion.

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As much as I love the true vintage beauties,

the further we move away from the 50s, the harder they are to find and the more expensive they get.

Even in a dystopian future where I've become a stonkingly rich millionaire,

I'm still going to choke at the thought of spending over 150 pounds on a dress.

Currently, I even consider fifty pounds to be a bit steep.

I'm either cheap or sensible, you decide!

Which is where retro dress makers come in.

These brands make vintage-esque dresses using modern fabrics and methods,

but vintage patterns.

Their clothes are more affordable, easier to wear, and you don't have to freak the hell out

if your strawberries and cream fall in your lap.

I lost a wonderful vintage dress that way.

I held a funeral for them.

Worn annually at summer parties.

I have a playlist on my channel going through a number of different retro brands

which you can find linked in the card above and also down in the description.

In those videos, I look at the clothes I own from them; the history of the brand;

the good; the bad; the look; sizing; and wearability;

price and ease of shipping.

And that is what you'll be seeing in today's video regarding Miss Candyfloss.

Timestamps are on screen now and you'll also be able to find them in the description.

I asked on my Instagram page and on the Community tab here on YouTube

for any other questions you would like answered,

and I'm sprinkling those in through the whole video.

If you haven't heard of them before, Miss Candyfloss is a Swedish women's wear brand

creating ethical 40s and 50s style clothes.

They not only make beautiful clothes,

but are determined to contribute to a sustainable apparel environment

by only using manufacturing facilities with fair working conditions

and creating pieces that should last for decades.

And I can thoroughly attest to that last part.

Miss Candyfloss is my go-to for travel clothing.

I'm going to take you through the pieces that I own one by one in a second,

but honestly,

I never worry that anything will tear whilst I'm sleeping on an aeroplane or

in a car or just on the floor in the corner of the room because

I have Chronic Fatigue, I pass out a lot.

Before we move forward, I want to point out that this video is not sponsored.

I'm doing it because I genuinely love this brand and I get a lot of questions about it.

However, they have gifted me all of the clothing that you will see in the video over a number of years.

Here's a quick run-through of the pieces that I own in order of them coming into my life.

We're going to start with this lovely here, which also comes with a belt.

This is one of my absolute travelling go-to faves.

Also one of my autumnal faves.

Wonderfully thick material,

but there is a little bit of a stretch to it.

I find that with a lot of their fabrics, actually. Because they use modern fabrics, they do have that

stretch that makes them very comfortable, but the tailoring

that makes them look quite smart.

I'm wearing this dress in an extra small and I'm generally about a size eight.

The one downfall about this dress for me is that I think the sleeves are a little too baggy at the very end.

I would like them if they were a little more

tailored, but maybe that's just because I have skinny elbows.

This dress has really been through the wars,

I have to say. It's been everywhere, this dress;

it's travelled through a myriad of countries.

Also has gone through the washing machine a number of times.

Wash it with all my other clothes and I never worry about it.

Next we have this lovely skirt here with a beautiful bow at the top.

I know they sell this in a variety of colours.

You don't have to get it in this maroon.

I don't love it as much as I should love it.

I don't know. Sometimes it really works for me; sometimes it doesn't so much.

The bow at the top

is fantastic.

It's amazing.

Again, also very comfortable.

However,

it's not a full...

circle skirt.

I'm a girl who likes to wear a lot of petticoats.

Even with just two petticoats, I find that at the top,

it seems to be cut a little straighter.

But I think it does look absolutely gorgeous

if you're wearing it with just a very light petticoat underneath or even no petticoat at all.

Highly recommend.

Just to prove that I don't just get clothes in one colour,

we're moving on to the blues now.

Now, they sell this again in various colours on the website.

It's such a flattering top, it really is.

Very, very gorgeous.

And we've also got lovely turned up cuffs here.

The little buttons are so cute;

the sweetheart neckline - aah!

Very nicely tailored around the waist area here.

As you can see these darts - so nice!

But I would say this dress - this style - is incredibly good value for money.

Also a lot of material down at the bottom here.

These pleats hide a lot of the larger material further down.

So then, again, you still get that lovely nipped-in waist.

And, yeah, it comes in a variety of colours. There is a little bit of a stretch to it.

Not quite as much as some of their other clothes, but a little bit.

It's just a little thinner.

However, you don't necessarily have to wear a structured undergarment with it.

I wear a longline bra and...

this one I feel just holds me in nicely anyway.

I wear this dress all the time.

But! The downside of this dress, for me,

is that I find it quite uncomfortable wearing halter neck tops

because of my very weird neck - which, if you saw my video about my scoliosis,

you'll really know what I'm talking about.

So my neck at the top,

instead--the bottom of my neck, instead of going this way,

goes this way,

which means that I need--I got a longer

halter neck.

That might just be me.

That might just be my problem.

Clearly it doesn't bother me that much, because I wear it all the time.

I should note that all of these dresses do come with coordinating belts.

They are also the type of belts that blissfully have actual belt loops.

Ah!

This gorgeous thing!

Ooh. You'll recognise this if you saw my interview with Sky.

I absolutely love this dress. Again, it's one of those gorgeous 'every day' type dresses.

Miss Candyfloss very much, back in the day,

when I first started looking at their site,

there were amazing

vintage day dresses.

Very much in that kind of vein of you look fabulous going to your lunch,

but they weren't super fancy; super...exciting, necessarily.

Love those dresses, but they're not fancy dresses that you would wear to something.

However, as you can see from the dress I'm wearing right now

(and spreading glitter everywhere),

they've moved on.

But they still have the great staple dresses.

That's the word, really: staple

These dresses are staples.

And this is a lovely

summer staple.

So, this dress is a hundred percent cotton.

It's a lovely, lovely summer dress.

Buttons right the way up to the top here.

I adore it. I cannot wait for it to be a little warmer

and start wearing it.

Lovely thing about this dress: it has big arm holes

If you're like me, sometimes you'll notice even when you're a small person,

the arm holes in dresses are just like...

Why do they expect my arm to be this thick? I don't know.

You've got tiny armholes and it just cuts in - right into your armpits; it's very uncomfortable.

But no, we have a lovely large armhole here,

with a very cute little capped sleeve.

Again, it comes with a belt.

I find a bit--this one, I don't love

necessarily wearing with the belt, but it's just because of the buttons.

Highly recommend this one.

You do have to iron it a lot because it's a hundred percent cotton and that's life.

Oh well - but that's what you're getting into.

You knew what you were getting into.

I throw this in the wash with all my other clothes as well.

Just put a colour catcher in there because, you know, the first time...

that red's gonna move.

Meet the world's most gorgeous and yet comfortable

and somehow shaping summer dress.

I don't know.

This thing -

it gives you such good shape, wow.

Beautiful work here that very much emphasizes the décolletage.

However, if you are large-chested, like me,

sometimes it may be a bit much.

Sometimes I feel a bit too, um, like there's too much attention on this whole area.

By the way, yes, I can say large-chested.

I'm 28E.

Gorgeous stretchy material.

Absolutely love that.

A week of the month, it's a bit too tight.

A bit too squished in that area.

But obviously then still fits on top,

so then I'd feel debatable if I was the next size up,

I suppose.

It's very much a V shape.

So, if you are not of that body type, this may not be the dress for you.

Look at some others.

But this dress if you're--if you've got an hourglass or if you've got an inverted triangle.

But there must be some kind of fruit for that, because they're all named after fruits, aren't they? Body shapes?

These bows at the top here are detachable, so if you wanna take them off; make it a bit of a plainer dress.

Or! You could take them off and tie them in your hair! And then you'd have a coordinating thing!

I'm gonna do that next time I wear it, quite clearly.

One negative would be that if you do catch it on something...

(not sure if you can see this).

Um, if you catch it on something, it does have the unfortunate effect of bobbling.

I think the answer there is avoid sticky things.

Next up in the lovely range of comfortable, slightly stretchy dresses that are well cut,

we've got this one.

I really love the darts that come in either side here.

Lovely neck, looks gorgeous, and!

There's a bow on the back!

It's the most exciting thing ever.

I think this is cut along the bottom here; the same pattern as the light blue one.

Again, that looks lovely no matter how many petticoats you decide to put underneath it,

or if you choose not to wear it with petticoats.

Gorgeous day dress.

Does have the same issue with the bobbling when you catch it on things,

like the dress I'm wearing right now.

We'll get to this dress in a minute.

This dress, this dress...

I...obviously give away a lot of my clothes, as you saw in my Marie Kondo video.

I like to make sure I don't have too many things at once,

and I also love giving things to charity shops and doing my bit.

Oh! Excitingly,

this is just random to throw this in here,

Scope told me that they made £380 with the clothes that I donated from my Marie Kondo clean-out,

so, that was good!

Some dresses look amazing

online

and then you get them and you're like 'don't love.'

This is a 'don't love,'

but I still have it because I wanna make it work.

It's a tuxedo dress and really, I should have known better,

because, I mean, it's a tuxedo dress.

But I thought I could make it girly.

I really don't like

fabrics where they're pinned together to look like something else.

You know like those jumpers that we used to have