Sicily, For Me? [Hell Bunny]

Posted on April 29, 2024 by missamymay

The SECOND I saw the Sicily dress I was in love. I’ve always adored a blue and white print—I remember loving the big willow pattern serving plate that sat on display on my family’s Welsh dresser my entire childhood. And lord knows I love a sun dress—they’re practically my entire wardrobe. So a sundress in a blue and white print? There was no question I would be won over, fixated, utterly enraptured! As such I’ve been waiting for this dress’s release with a not-so-low level of thrumming desperation for the past two or three months, and finally she is here, Sicily, sweet Sicily. And she’s perfect!

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Calypso Time! [Hell Bunny]

Posted on April 22, 2024 by missamymay

Hell Bunny are so good at making sweet little sun dresses, especially in a tropical print. Pretty much every year they release one or more new tropical prints as part of their spring/summer range, and my favourite this year is their Calypso print. Now, this might shock some of you, as I happily state that I just don’t like pink–but I’m a complicated woman, and that statement, like many others, comes with caveats. Like, ‘except for lipstick,’ or ‘unless it’s paired with black, or green.’ Well, would you look at that, this print has both of those! It’s just a cute summer print, and it makes for a lovely sun dress you can wear to death.

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Black in the Bluebells [Hell Bunny]

Posted on April 16, 2024 by missamymay

Over the last few years I’ve developed a real love for maxi dresses. There’s just something about the floaty feeling of fabric flowing about one’s feet—the lighter weight the fabric, the better. No need for petticoats, checking straight stocking seams, or even shaving your legs if you don’t want to—it’s just you, your cute dress, and the regal feeling of a good swish, swish, swish as you walk. I’ve also come to love black clothing over the past few years—long term readers will know I once found it boring compared to layers of colour!—so this Mortem maxi dress is a great combo of those two recently developed appreciations. Plus, there’s lace! Ya girl never says no to a bit of lace.

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Maximum Solange [Hell Bunny]

Posted on February 25, 2023 by missamymay

A dress made for sunshine and good times, Solange is a maxi dress that’s ready for fun. Offering rainbow-but-not-really, it boasts yellow, sky blue, white, pea green, and deep red stripes for a bright, playful print.

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Hey-a, Adelaida! [Hell Bunny]

Posted on February 20, 2023 by missamymay

Hell Bunny always offers great tropical prints, typically creating one or two new ones every year for their spring/summer range. This year sees the return of the Ukulele print from SS21 but now in pale blue and green tones, and the release of this lush Adelaida print, a darker, earthy take on what I often think of when I think of tropical prints—namely, colour and lots of it. In fact, the Adelaida print doesn’t feature tropical flowers at all, and yet something about the print still tells my brain it’s a tropical print, but like, in a chilled way. Is it just me?? Let’s take a closer look so you can decide.

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Heidi, Ya Peach [Hell Bunny]

Posted on February 16, 2023 by missamymay

One of the great things about dressing in mid-century inspired clothing is that you can achieve a fully authentic look and yet with those the same clothes you can often create an outfit that feels very modern. The day dresses especially easily translate to modern looks, as a cinched waist and flared skirt has been considered a flattering silhouette ever since. So, for folks who can only or want to dress vintage part time, having a wardrobe of versatile pieces that can be worn dressed fully up as well as smartly to work or casually at play is crucial. To me, therefore, a solid-coloured swing dress will always serve well, because it can inevitably be styled to fulfil all those functions. Today we’re looking at Heidi as just such an option.

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Nancy Do Good [Hell Bunny]

Posted on January 29, 2023 by missamymay

I’m one of those people who is always early. The mere thought of arriving only on time, let alone late, stresses me out, so I prep and I plan and I arrive early, even if that means sitting in my car for 15 minutes before I turn up, only 1 minute early, to an appointment or social gathering.

Hell Bunny is the brand version of that. Twice a year, they’re the first brand in the vintage-inspired clothing world to begin releasing their latest line, sometimes getting out their first seasonal pieces before other brands have finished releasing their last straggling items from the season before. It always makes me chuckle. And so, many of their SS23 items have been out for weeks now, with others coming soon. This Nancy dress was one of their first spring drops and while I greatly appreciate Hell Bunny’s reliable promptness, it is in fact still January and was 2°c when I shot these photos, so please think warm, spring-like thoughts for yesterday’s Me as we look at this dress together.

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Blue Orion [Hell Bunny]

Posted on August 6, 2022 by missamymay

If there’s one thing ya girl likes, it’s velvet for cold weather months. To be honest, I also love it for occasion wear all year round, as England is usually cool enough for that to be easily possible. A nice velvet gown for an evening function? Chef’s kiss! I mean, right now, on the heels of a heatwave and anticipating yet another, yeah, maybe we’re all feeling a little velvet-adverse at this precise moment. I geeet it, I geeet it. But picture the scene: you wake up to a crisp September day, there’s a freshness to the air, you’re excited about the prospect of the leaves falling but there’s still a month or so until they do, you’ve got plans for that evening you’re looking forward to, and this blue velvet Orion dress is hanging on the back of your wardrobe, ready to go. Doesn’t that sound nice? So, with that in mind, let’s look at this plush little baby!

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More Beryl [Hell Bunny]

Posted on July 26, 2022 by missamymay

You might think you recognise this green check print from a recent post, and that’s because you do! Hell Bunny are great at releasing multiple items made from the same fabric, so if you spot a new pattern or print in one of their ranges then in all likelihood there will be 2-3 items you can peruse to decide which one best suits your needs. As a person who doesn’t wear trousers when dressing vintage that’s reassuring, because I can often spot a fabric I love on a pair of their pants and know it will also be used for a skirt or a dress as well. In this instance, this Beryl print is used for the Beryl pinafore dress I reviewed a couple weeks back, a swing skirt, and this Beryl Mid dress. It’s a buffet of Beryl!

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Pinafore Before Long [Hell Bunny]

Posted on July 19, 2022 by missamymay

Hell Bunny are incredibly organised and much of their latest autumn-winter line is already out. Yes, we’re currently in a heatwave in the UK, but the early releases are still something I love about them because it kind of bums me out when I buy an item I’m excited about but it’s too late in the season to get much wear out of it before it’s time to switch my wardrobe over for the changing weather. That won’t be the case here, as I’ve got this little number all ready for when the weather turns cooler so I can wear it all season long. Did I go all pink and clammy shooting it for you early one morning last week, just so I could blog it for you? Yes, of course I did, because blogging is actually deeply unglamorous and there’s no getting around the fact that it often requires the photographing of summer dresses in February and autumn pieces in August. So let’s look at this cute pinafore and pretend none of us are sweaty right now as we dream of September.

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