Dead Threads – Never Fitting In Amongst The Living

Dead Threads – Never Fitting In Amongst The Living

The darker side of society is rarely ever seen with accepting eyes, especially the dark side of the fashion industry.

Dead Threads may sound a little morbid but the online store is fully alive and well. Dead Threads is passionate about punk, goth and grunge fashion. One may not even believe that deep within the chambers of this website, that rockabilly fashion is in abundance and is just as stylish as ever.

Dead Threads designers think of themselves as “the nail that just won’t be hammered in”, reflecting their eccentric stand against normal society through their fashion. Dead Threads started it’s engine in the year 2005, revving up success through constantly creating and putting out new and fresh designs. Founded in The United Kingdom, Dead Threads now has veins connecting to The United States, Canada, Australia and throughout Europe.

When people normally think about rockabilly fashion they imagine the rough retro look of almost trashy glamor. Mismatched tops and bottoms, loud prints and bright cherry red bandanas. Dead Threads offers a little more of an alternative style, catching people off guard with buckled boots and prints of anchors, cupcakes and zebra stripes. Bringing the metallic twinge of goth into rockabilly can create a spontaneous and exciting wardrobe. Adding spikes, studs, and chains to a classic cut 1950s dress may seem a little scary but in reality it’s a sexy and bold fashion statement.

Souls that are entwined with the punk, goth, and vintage styles will find peace in Dead Threads. Their rockabilly collection coming alive in the sultry night time like 1950 vampires. There is no shame in a person wearing a metal buckled rockabilly dress with a vibrant colored bandana, holding back their tenderly curled hair. Dead threads doesn’t have much for bright colors, mostly donning black with some reds, blues and sparse neon colors.

So finding a curve fitting cheetah spotted dress isn’t going to happen. Dead Threads sticks to what it knows and what its passionate about, bringing the world unique and dark fashion that awakens the senses. Rockabilly ladies shouldn’t shy away from punk rock and goth fused fashion. They’ll never know what they can find.

Lucky Lola

Lucky Lola

Lucky Lola is an online fashion shop that offers Pinup and Rockabilly styles of clothing. The store offers a variety of clothing items as well as accessories and other fun items that are done in exciting retro styles.

Lucky Lola sells outfits from a wide variety of different pinup clothing brands including Lucky 13, Lolita Girl Clothing, Miss Fortune, Miss Hussy, Pinupgirl Clothing, Mode Merr, Queen of Heartz and Stop Staring. There are likely to be new labels in the assortment of offerings each time you visit the store.

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The most popular item of Lucky Lola shops is their Rockabilly style dresses. Whether you’re looking to snag a retro style dress in bright colors, classy and classic cuts or you’re going for the vintage sailor look, there is something available at Lucky Lola that will perfectly suit your taste.

Whether it’s a new office outfit or a night out on the town with friends, there are professional, classic, low-cut, glittery, and basic retro dresses to suit virtually any style and occasion, all at a great price.

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Dresses are not the only exciting item offered by Lucky Lola. The store consists of a wide variety of pants, tops, bathing suits, stockings, bathing suits, and accessories. And they don’t stop there – lip balm, lip gloss, air fresheners, and cute clutches and purses are included in the stock as well. If you’re looking for a pinup, Rockabilly or Retro themed item but don’t know where to find it, odds are you will find it at Lucky Lola. Not only will you find it, but it will be available in leopard print, polka dots, and bright, fun colors as well.

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The assortment of hair clips, pins, rings, purses, stockings, bandanas, fun little hats and other accessories will make any Rockabilly pulse beat faster and faster. And if you’re not a tiny little thing and worry you’ll never find a dress or stockings to flatter your curves and zip up your back, don’t worry – Lucky Lola embraces beauties of all shapes and sizes, and you’ll feel better once you discover they all the way up to size Extra Large. The wide range of sizes, colors and items available at Lucky Lola makes it the perfect choice for pinup aficionados everywhere.

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Collectif

Collectif Clothing

Collectif is considered one of the hottest brands in UK pin up, rockabilly, and psychobilly fashions. Collectif’s pieces are generally very versatile; many of their pieces could be worn both as a traditional 40′s-50′s style or turned into a harder punk-themed look.

The brand is becoming increasingly popular worldwide and their clothing is sold by several major alternative retailers, including Pinup Girl Clothing. Collectif’s website features high-fashion photography and an adorable, easy-to-navigate layout. The brand’s models all have a definite edge; you’ll see pink-haired girls posing on sinks and tattooed beauties perched on motorcycles. However, Collectif Clothing excels at making each piece distinctly feminine without looking frail or delicate. Even their girly flared dresses feature bold patterns and eye-catching design. No matter if you’re a psychobilly, rockabilly, or a modern-day pinup, Collectif is not for the faint of heart.

The brand definitely designs for curvy women. Sizes start at a UK 8 (a US 6 and an EU 36)–no skinny fashion models here. However, Collectif is unafraid to design for larger women; available sizes go up to size 22 (a US 20 and an EU 52). The company’s fitted dresses are undeniably sexy and designed to highlight any figure’s curves. The website allows customers to browse dresses by print and available options include dogstooth, cherry, and polka dot. Not a dress fan? The site offers a variety of separates such as cardigans, pencil skirts, and a wealth of tops. The company also sells knitwear and outerwear. The accessories collection contains a few select items in each category, some of which include handbags, belts, petticoats, and buckles. Eclectic shoppers should definitely check out the Hair Candy collection where girls can purchase everything from meat cleavers to giant feathered birds for their hair. Additionally, the Sale section features a wide variety of discounted items.

Collectif fans can use the site’s Wish List feature as a helpful gift-giving hint for family members or significant others. Customers can also sign up for the emailed newsletter or visit Collectif’s MySpace page that sometimes features exclusive offers or promotions. UK residents can also visit one of Collectif’s two stores, one in Covent Garden and one in Camden. The company also offers wholesale sales on orders over two hundred dollars.

Whirling Turban

  

Whirling Turban is an online shop specializing in pin up couture, rockabilly, bombshell dresses, vintage reproductions and custom vintage-reproduction wedding dresses.

Its base of business is in Boise, Idaho, although all of their clothes are designed, sewn and shipped from their Bali studio located in an orchid-filled tropical garden.

The brainchild of long-time Hollywood and celebrity seamstress and fashion designer Katherine Robinson, Whirling Turban’s fledgling roots began back in 2000 when Ms. Robinson found herself broke in Bali, with considerable experience and skills designing and fabricating custom clothing and the idea of selling vintage couture clothing online. She happened to own an original Alfred Shaheen, replicated it precisely and put it up for auction on Ebay.

Stunned by its rapid bidding war, she moved on to make and auction vintage reproductions of 1950s Hawaiian dresses. These proved so successful she expanded her business and moved to her own online shop specializing in 1940s and 1950s vintage pin up style dresses, skirts, and shrugs, and custom tea-length wedding dresses.Still living in Bali, Ms. Robinson and a few Balinese expert seamstresses handcraft everything they sell.

Whirling Turban offers each and every one of their customers a ” Movie Star Fit” by creating individual custom dress forms from their measurements to build each dress. A self-proclaimed perfectionist, each piece that Katherine Robinson sells is not only a painstakingly created work of art but a long-term fashion investment.

Whirling Turban has a huge selection of styles to choose from plus a wide variety of print, solid and brocade fabrics. Circle skirts, sarong skirts, waterfall skirts and Classic 1950s sheaths, plus pin up pants, shirts, shorts and combos, rockabilly peek-a-boo dresses and a classic interpretation of Frederick’s of Hollywood 1956 “Hawaiian Heaven” dress are just a sample of their items. They also offer “off the rack” wedding and bombshell dresses in standard sizes with minor alterations available.

Whirling Turban is a high-end shop yet their prices are very reasonable for unique couture clothing. Their ready-made boutique dresses range from to $150 to $1000, depending on the style, and their custom clothing starts at $255 and caps at $2000 per dress. Shipping runs from $25 to $30 in Asia and the Pacific, to $50 everywhere else.

Dismantled Fashions

Dismantled Fashions is a one-woman brand and company operating out of Central Virginia in the United States. Emily, the founder, designer, fabricator, webmaster and promoter of Dismantled Fashions founded it in 2004 and specializes in designing and sewing clothing with classic 1940s and 1950s styles with an added twist of modern rockabilly and psychobilly trash.

Vintage with a hard edge, Dismantled Fashions sells dresses, skirts and bolero shrugs in a few classic pin up and rockabilly styles with a strong emphasis on customization. Polka dots, tattoos flashes, cherries, skulls, skeletons and stretched twill are just a few of the fabric options that can be mixed and matched with lace, buttons and other notions on any dress, skirt or shrug design available at Dismantled Fashions.

To make each piece a success, Emily asks that her adored customers measure themselves carefully using the comprehensive sizing chart on her website so that every curve can be perfectly enhanced by their custom purchase.

Emily learned to sew from her mother and from her own resourcefulness; her business, marketing and design skills were acquired from a couple of semesters in community college. Not one to stay in school or hold down a corporate job, Emily’s DIY attitude is as punk rock as her zombie momma, cheap-whiskey-drinking lifestyle and the sassy, curvy clothes she designs.

An enterprising Aries, Emily became interested in rockabilly clothing originally because, as she put it,” It’s damn flattering on us big girls!”, and started selling her handmade designs on Ebay after listing a pencil skirt she had sewn for herself that came out too small. It sold, she was inspired and continued to make and sell clothing on Ebay until she was able to create her own online shop in 2004. Now she not only sells directly from her website, but also has an etsy shop, a facebook fan page and sells clothes in selected retail stores.

Exceptionally reasonable, Dismantled Fashions’ hand-sewn custom dresses are only $55.00 at their highest price, whereas custom skirts are about $40.00 and shrugs run from $15.00 to $25.00. She ships everywhere via USPS, with free shipping on orders over $100. Because of the personalization of each item, returns are not accepted and exchanges are limited.