Nostalgia Mondays: Printed Dresses

I WAS DOING FLOWER CROWNS BEFORE THEY WERE COACHELLA-ED.

Spring is in the silky warm breeze this week, and I’m ready to cast off my Mom-jeans and slip into some spring dresses. Spring dresses are necessarily printed–most often with flowers! I really only have one printed dress (okay, so I just bought another today in a roomie shopping trip, but that’s another blog post), but it’s in my closet at my parent’s house, so I can’t whip it out to wear in the glorious weather that I feel is

almost upon us here in Montreal. As I’m trying to decide on whether I should eschew a coat tomorrow in anticipation, I’m gonna roll on back through my memories to any and all printed dresses I had in my childhood that I still covet.I can really only think of two: the flowered number up at the top there, and this groovy blue dress covered in a fruit pattern. I wore the heck out of that blue dress; if I had a grown-up version today I’d wear it constantly. The flowered dress was my “good” dress, for school picture day, or for going out for dinner, or for visiting somewhere; it’s hard to see in the picture, but it had a row of buttons down the front and a full skirt. If I had it today, I’d wear the heck out of it too.

Ooooh. Time to vanish down an internet rabbit hole in search for replacements!

In a sort of cross between the two of them, here’s a shirt dress from Topshop.

Dress from Topshop.

And here we have something collarless, but in the same vein as the “good” Sunday dress that I used to have:

Dress also from Topshop.

And finally, this is as good as it’s gonna get:

Dress by Betsey Johnson, but I can’t find a homepage, only a Google Image.

None are quite right. Maybe I could get a loose knit polo dress and stamp it to make a print, for the blue one? And maybe just find some nice flower-printed cotton and sew myself up something nice for the other one?

I leave you with a lovely pair of Pooh-Bear pyjamas:

Fierce! Work it gurl. Scrunchie-time.