Calypso Time! [Hell Bunny]

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.

Plus size pinup Miss Amy May models the Calypso dress by Hell Bunny for a fit and sizing review

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Louis Louis! [British Retro]

I’ve wanted a white summer swing dress for years. I’ve got close a few times with a mostly white dress, or a white dress that is fancy but not really summery. In my heart, I wanted a swing style made from broderie anglaise. If it had sleeves of some description, preferably not capped? All the better. Well, finally, I found it! Let’s take a look at Louis Louis among the bluebells.

Plus size pinup Miss Amy May models the Louis Louis white English embroidery Broderie Anglaise full circle dress by British Retro for a fit and sizing review

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Hey-a, Adelaida! [Hell Bunny]

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. 

Plus size pinup Miss Amy May models the Adelaida dress by Hell Bunny for a fit and size review

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Selena in the Sun [Miss Candyfloss]

Many of my favourite dresses are Miss Candyfloss, and pretty much all of my favourite yellow dresses are Miss Candyfloss, because they’re a brand who do not scrimp on yellow, which I love them for. So today’s post is all about frolicking amongst the buttercups and soaking up the sun (while slathered in SPF 50 and a sunhat, of course) in the happiest of yellows, in the Selena-Sun dress.

Plus size pinup Miss Amy May models the Selena-Sun dress by Miss Candyfloss for a fit and size review

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Summery Chiara [Hell Bunny]

One of the best things about summer, to me, is being able to wear floaty summer dresses. Give me a strappy sundress on a hot day and I will be relieved and happy. In England, of course, you often have to have a cardigan to hand in case the sun comes with a breeze, or just disappears later in the day entirely. But even considering that, a sundress day is a happy day, and this Chiara dress is ready to please.

Fit and size review of the Chiara dress gifted by Hell Bunny by plus size pinup Miss Amy May. discount code amymay20!% for 20% off hellbunny.com

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Yellow Gemma [Joanie Clothing]

I have a lot of items in my wardrobe, in all colours and fabrics. There is one fabric style, though, of which I have none, and of which I have been lately wanting to add to said wardrobe; broiderie anglaise. You’ll more likely hear it referred to as eyelet lace, and you’ll even more likely recognise it as a fabric that screams summer to you. White eyelet lace dresses, whether on small girls or grown women, fit beautifully with sunny days and happy smiles. I’d be delighted to add one to my ever-growing collection of pretties, but today I welcome not the expected crisp white of summer to my closet, but something even more exciting–for me, anyway.

Bring on the mustard!

Joanie Clothing Yellow Eyelet lace Gemma sun dress gifted fit sizing plus size review pinup Miss Amy May

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Violetta Darling [Hell Bunny]

I am not often drawn to any shade of purple, nor to mid-blues. This dress, though–my, my, has it won me over. Ensnared me! Mesmerized me in earnest.

…I really like it basically, okay? So much so that while I’ve been enjoying this winter for the opportunity to dress seasonally in dark and rich colours, to rock winter-only prints like tartans, the one spring dress hanging in my wardrobe that I’ve been dying to wear, even though I’m kind of not really ready for spring yet on the whole, is this Violetta. She has been calling to me for weeks and finally, thankfully, it’s time to let her do her thing.

Hell Bunny Violetta 50s floral dress size fit review plus size pinup Miss Amy May

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Harriet in the Country [Joanie Clothing]

Here’s the thing; my favourite thing about the vintage silhouette of which I’m most enamoured is definitely the full, swishy skirt flowing down from a cinched waist, but sometimes in summer the dedication and discomfort it takes to stay committed to that silhouette is just too much. Sometimes you just need an easy, breezy summer dress that reminds you of your favourite vintage features without all the layers and cinching and sweating. Sometimes you just gotta relax. Enter, Harriet.

Harriet bardot stripe sun dress blue Joanie Clothing plus size Miss Amy May

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Sweet Sunday [Joanie Clothing]

I am a yellow lover through and through but it’s a wildly under-utilised colour in fashion in general. Occasionally in the vintage inspired realm you’ll get a plain yellow dress on offer or maybe a print or two, but it’s definitely under represented on the whole. Imagine my excitement, then, when I saw this multi-yellow toned striped cutie available from Joanie Clothing. If this dress were a person, it would have been an ‘our eyes locked across a crowded room’  love story. The reality of that is that I felt the jolt of an immediate ‘Add to cart’ impulse as soon as I saw the product photo pop up on Joanie Clothing’s New In page, but let’s not dampen the romance of a new found love with reality, shall we?

Joanie Clothing Sunday Stripe Floral dress plus size

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