Painted Bird Vintage Boutique 99 views Claim this Business♡

Silk printed with overscale daisies in deep violet, soft periwinkle, cream and touches of sage green, this dress carries the particular vitality of mid-century textile design. The flowers are not delicate or demure: their petals are rendered with bold, almost graphic brushstroke energy, filling the...

Style simplicity to this wool shift dress, cut in a flecked tweed of olive, gold and cream that reads as a single warm tone from a distance and reveals its texture up close. The dress is lined, sleeveless with a round neckline and a fitted bodice through the shoulders, dropping to a belted waist wit...

This Puritan shirtdress is cut from soft grey easy care fabric with an almost hand drawn look fuchsia ribbon print winding loose across the fabric. The bodice gathers at the shoulders into a blouson shape and cinches at the waist with a matching self tie belt, while the skirt below falls into fine...

Layers of lavender, violet and grey swirl into a bold abstract floral across this Pine dress, a print with the sweeping, energy that Nordic fashion houses embraced during the 1970s. Cut from a lightweight synthetic knit prized for its drape and colourfastness, the fabric moves easily with the body...

Layers of colour-saturated georgette catch the light like a prism turned slowly in afternoon sun. Woven in vertical stripes of cobalt, violet, rosy and teal, the sheer fabric shifts and breathes with every movement, its discreet transparency giving the bodice an ethereal, almost watercolour quality...

A periwinkle all-over floral lace in a soft, open weave covers the entire length of the gown, from the gently puffed short sleeves to the sweeping skirt below. The construction is where it gets interesting: a fitted lace bodice gives way to a double-layered peplum at the hip, its curved hem trimmed...

Hundreds of tiny blue and teal daisies scattered across a deep raspberry ground, the print on this Osti Fashions dress warrants a closer look. Made in New Zealand when local fashion labels were able to produce genuinely good ready-to-wear, the fabric has a soft texture that gives the print real dept...

The print on this Chow Mein dress looks almost abstract from a distance, then resolves into hundreds of tiny flowers up close: violet, purple, teal, red and khaki blooms tumbling across a cream ground. The cotton is light and breathable, with just enough body to hold the shape of the blouson bodice...

Across a ground of soft lavender, an extraordinarily dense and fine hand-drawn paisley print unfolds in ink-outlined swirls of pink, ochre, mint and teal. The silk moves with gentle draping from a gathered roll collar, surprise pockets then through a relaxed blouson bodice, falling to a softly gathe...

Oversized botanical forms in deep violet, amethyst, periwinkle, slate grey, black and blush cascade across the fabric in a composition that looks more like a painting than a pattern, each outlined bloom pressing right to the edge of the next with graphic confidence. The 1960s style cotton blend carr...

Run your fingers across this fabric and you understand immediately why wool blend knit was the decade's go-to for a well-dressed winter. The stripe sequence here is extraordinary: dozens of horizontal bands in deep violet, amethyst, magenta, berry, periwinkle, lavender and warm grey shift and repeat...

This highly collectable dress is made with a genuinely special fabric in a deep berry shifting through rose and plum in diagonal sweeps, as though watercolour was pulled across the cloth before the roses were placed. And then the roses themselves: loose, blooms in powder blue, ice grey and white wit...

The dress texture of this fabric is a dense, nubby boucle weave in deep magenta berry, flecked with darker tones that give the surface a depth and richness you simply do not get from flat cloth. Playgirl Exclusive was a New Zealand label making sharp, youthful pieces for women who were paying attent...

At least 50 years young, this dress in vivid purple florals on a speckled ground of olive, khaki and black is stunning. The Lydia of London label tells you this came out of London at the height of the city's mid-century fashion moment, when British designers were producing work that was genuinely bo...

Metallic threads move like candlelight across this fitted lurex bodice, catching purple and pink light with every step. The dress narrows through the waist and releases into a softly pleated skirt, anchored by what looks to be a hand-worked crochet medallion at one hip. A sheer pleated godet panel d...

Produced in Auckland by Russell Brighouse under the Sydney-based Mona Crawford Internationals label, this hostess maxi dress carries the kind of provenance that makes a collector pause. The fabric, a fine Easy Care crepe, holds a soft ivory tone that sets off the hand-applied embroidery with quiet a...

Woven from a soft lurex blend that shifts between pale lavender and mauvey-silver depending on the light, this floor-length column gown carries mid-century occasion dressing at its most assured. The silhouette is long and unbroken, falling in a clean vertical line from a rounded neckline to the hem...

Diane Freis built her reputation on exactly this kind of dress: georgette so light it barely registers as fabric, cut generously so it moves rather than clings, printed so boldly it stops a room. This one layers two distinct prints - red polka dots frame a wide yoke at the neckline and form a gather...

Paisley has a history stretching back centuries, from the woven shawls of Kashmir to the Liberty prints of London, and this dress carries that lineage. The cotton is tightly woven and dense with detail: large-scale botanical paisley forms in royal blue, deep purple, forest green and cream sweep acro...

A dreamlike heirloom quality gown in ethereal shades of ice blue, lavender, and pearl. This remarkable piece carries the romance of mid-century formal dressing, with a softly structured sequinned bodice flowing into cascading layers of airy tulle. Hand-finished floral appliqué trails across the ski...

Like a faded love letter from an old ballroom, this authentic vintage gown drifts somewhere between silver screen glamour and fairytale romance. Crafted in a dreamy dark duck egg blue, the silhouette pairs a softly structured bodice with gathered sheer shoulder draping and a sweeping full skirt that...

This is the dress you wear to a wedding and spend the evening being asked about where you got it and how fabulous you look. Cut from a silver and teal iridescent lurex brocade with an all-over floral damask weave, it moves between pewter and deep teal depending on the light, the hour, and how good t...

This vintage dress has that crisp navy-and-white floral bodice that feels a bit like porcelain patterning, finished with a deep inky skirt that keeps the whole look clean and elegant. The neckline sits high with a navy collar band, and the sleeveless cut keeps the shape sharp through the shoulders.F...

Bold red florals, loosely painted in style, scattered across a ground of deep khaki, olive and black. It reads almost like a work on canvas, the kind of print that stops people in their tracks and prompts the question every vintage lover knows well: where did you get that?The dress itself is a clean...