- I'm so stressed, for you.
- I don't think I've felt the way I just felt in a long time
ever. Maybe.
Okay. She's got to work her way down.
- I'm here.
(orchestra music)
- Hey y'all,
so holiday party is coming up.
- The infamous Buzzfeed
Holiday party.
- I haven't been to a holiday party.
- No
I haven't even seen
the coworkers in like two years.
- And the theme is.
- Old Hollywood.
- And it's going to be at.
- The Magic Castle.
(laughing)
I wasn't ready for this.
- You have to almost kind of know someone to get in,
initially.
You have to dress up to the nones to even get an or they
won't let you in.
- It's very vintage. Very old Hollywood theme.
- So that's why we are at Timeless Vixen in Beverly Hills to
find a cute vintage look for me.
and Lindsay's gonna basically tell me her because
her taste is impeccable.
I mean, who else would
I bring to help me really serve the best
look at this Buzzfeed holiday party.
- Welcome to the. Timeless Vixen.
I'm Lauren Lepire.
We specialize in rare designer, vintage old couture,
and museum quality antiques.
So I think we're going to have a lot of fun.
- Vintage is like jam, Lindsay knows it.
Thank you for having us.
I'm so excited to see everything you have.
- I love anyone that loves vintage.
So we're going to have the best time.
- We're going to have the best time.
- The 50 section, the nipped waist and fit and flare,
Where you can kind of think of like a Marilyn Monroe
look where it's very hour glass.
Try something like this beautiful
knit, which would be.
- Listen. Holler.
I need you in some kind of glam sparkle.
- Oh yeah.
- Sparkles.
- So the 50's is very this, very like, look at me, sparkle,
rhinestone, which would be gorgeous on you.
So very tailor.
- Look at this little moment.
- And with the bow it's falling.
- Well look at the back.
- I love a booty and a bow.
- This could be a very good luck,
we're definitely going to try for it for you.
- So cute
- That's so cute.
- Oh my God.
- Hold on.
- This would be epic on you.
- I saw a glimmer of this,
but I didn't realize they were like beaded tassels.
- And this designer's named Jean Shelley
known for just making
the hourglass dresses. Think like the Supreme is when,
like all the three of them matching.
That's exactly this vibe.
- But everyone also knows I'm obsessed is Tracee Ellis Ross.
- Her mom.
- It's like it's chills. Yeah.
- There's nothing.
more, nothing more that I can just say.
Than just, her mom.
- Yeah.
- Let's do some girls.
Let's go and slip the late 50s, 60s.
- Let's do it.
- This is a 1960 showstopper.
If you want it to really make a statement at your holiday
party, this is epic.
- The color is unreal.
- Here is another phenomenal early sixties.
showstopper, I think would be beautiful on you.
That Emerald green color, the slit in the front.
Very old Hollywood.
- It's also really soft on the inside.
- Oh.
- Oh yeah. You could like sleep in it.
They're comfortable.
- It looks like, does it have stretch.
- Oh yes. You're going to party.
- Yeah, stretchy.
This has a naked ladies on it. Isn't that great?
- Oh, where were they?
- They're naked!
- Boobies, boobies!
- Beautiful!
But not for holiday parties.
- Not for a holiday.
- So if this doesn't say.
- Yeah.
- Hollywood, I don't know what does.
- But look at the back too.
- Yeah.
- It's so petite like you.
(laughing)
- It's not necessarily traditional red or green,
but it still gives holiday.
- And if you really wanted to be Christmas,
we could do a Bob Mackie red gown,
the Grape Vine collection.
- How much time do we have?
Am I trying on the entire store? Like...
- Okay, I think we've got some really
good options almost too good.
- I know.
- This is all going to be difficult,
but we're in for a show.
- Ready to be a model, Freddie?
I can't wait. I can not wait.
I'm so excited to try these on.
Here I come.
- All right Fred.
- Let's see.
Oh my gosh. Beautiful.
- It's like, I mean, come on.
- The same version was worn by Aretha Franklin on her single
for Spanish Harlem.
- I know I can never give Aretha, however, what an honor.
- You'll never be cold.
- No, I will never be cold.
- You'll never be cold.
- You're wearing a quilt.
- It's so epic.
- It's literally like a velvet quilt.
- It's not sparkles, but it brings another level of.
- It brings another level of holiday.
- This is just one of your axes guys.
- Oh my gosh.
You are killing it in this.
- Look at your butt!
- Very old Hollywood.
Like sparkle.
- And it's really comfortable. It's stretchy.
I can like really, you know.
- It's so Christmas.
- I didn't know dresses could create
hourglass shapes that don't exist
without them.
- You have it.
- I don't have a little hour.
- You do.
- I have a little skittle.
- Skittle?
- This is going to look insane in photos.
Also kind of look like little Christmas tree.
- It does.
- The slit in the front.
It's really, it's different.
- Yeah it is.
- I've never seen this shape of a split, this height,
this placement.
- Well, we have a couple more sequin ones in there.
- Yeah, yeah we're going to do another.
We're going to do another sequin's moment.
I feel like an absolute bad bitch to the hundred power.
That's, that's exactly how I feel in this dress.
- How can we get more bad bitch Freddie?
- Show us.
- Oh my god.
- I actually think vintage clothes fit me
better than straight
fashion sizes.
- It's like someone made this on your body,
this is beatiful.
- I literally lost my breath.
- Early sixties magic.
- I don't I've felt the way I just felt in a long time.
Ever, maybe.
- We're doing those shorter number now.
- Oh Mackie.
- The back I'm obsessed with.
- Why does everything for you perfectly?
- Very.
Tina Turner.
- So holiday and it, you know,
you're gonna have fun dancing that.
- I need all the boomerangs for when I'm dancing.
- Shake right now,
there you go, that's it.
- You get booty and back.
- Try to drop it.
- Can you drop this one?
- And we get some noise.
- Look at her, go.
- Look at the, she's ready.
- Look at her, go.
- Yeah.
Are you stressed?
- Yes.
- Oh, I'm the stress.
You must be very stressed
- Yeah, no I'm extremely stressed.
- Let's keep it going.
- Keep it going.
- Oh my gosh.
Beautiful.
You'd never know this dress was almost like 70 years old.
Isn't that incredible?
- Who makes this?
- It's in a custom,
you don't know which has mystery old Hollywood.
So it's like kind of like a mystery, you know,
with a lot of these custom couture pieces.
- I'm like, okay,
well I'm going to get super (beep)
creative with the shapes and the
fabric and the way it falls and the way it fits.
- And that's the true Like old Hollywood hourglass.
- The shape of your boobies are so cool.
- And what's fun with this,
is you would go like dripping in jewelry.
- Whoa,
the presence is don't stop.
- The presence don't stop.
- Say now, has not taken a break today.
(laughing)
- Call me Freddie rabbit.
- Oh,
wow.
- Incredible.
So this dress looks very old Hollywood like
the vibe we going for,
but it's actually made in the nineties by Bob Mackie.
So it's his little not to old Hollywood.
So you get the cool nineties vibe with also like the forties
and fifties.
Yeah.
It's from his grapevine collection. And if you look closely,
it's the little grapes.
- Oh yeah. A little Christmas grape.
It's also kind of sheer at the bottom.
You can't tell unless you put light against it, but like,
oh, it's so good.
- So beautifully.
- What is on the, what?
The other boob.
- It's an asymmetric little grape.
- We love it.
- Now. Can I drop it?
- Drop it low test again.
- Let's see. Let's see.
- Okay. She's got to work her way down.
- I got to take things a little slower.
But I'm here.
- Oh.
- And the boobs are still inside.
- Yeah.
- So this is a bit of a different vibe.
- Okay.
- Wait.
- Really cute.
- You're 1950s. Perfection.
- I thought this was going to look like cute.
- I thought it was gonna be cute and
I do feel sexy.
- Good bow, do a little twirl.
- It's great for the holidays.
- This is it.
- You could do little black gloves with this too.
- What? You must must.
- Well, this is actually one of my babies.
I did not payments you.
And look at that smile.
- I'm thinking Audrey Hepburn hair with it.
- I would worry though, that you would spill on this one.
- Yeah.
- Because you're going to want to party so hard.
- In general probably be very like cognizant
the entire night and making
sure that everything's done, but this I'll probably be.
- Yeah.
- So (beep) love this one.
Oh.
What the.
- The polar on you.
- You look like a shining.
- Ice princess.
- This is Supreme.
- This is Supreme is vibe one.
- Yeah.
- This is the Supreme
- Perfect sparkle for holidays.
Very old Hollywood.
- This is top three for me now.
- The color combo of the sequin is insane.
- It's insane.
- You're just in a vibe.
- Yeah. It's also stretchy.
This one. I know I'd be comfortable in all night.
Okay. I can really.
- Yeah.
- I'm definitely gonna stand out in a room in this sense
because no one's going to think this color.
- And who looks this color?
- It's a winter icicles.
You definitely do your like white Scholly thing.
- This is practical (beep) it's hot.
- All right Fred the last dress.
- What the.
- Yeah. This one looks really pretty on you.
- The style of the beading and the sequin is very,
just screams vintage.
- This is early 50s and it was actually made
here in Beverly Hills,
all hand knit.
- Honestly,
this one screams more holiday than the purple one to me.
- I agree.
- Yeah. I agree with you.
- I didn't think this was going to look sexy and it does.
I don't know why. I just,
my brain just assume that vintage didn't mean for like,
as flattering or as sexy.
So because of some things being cut one modest,
it's not modest. Like this is so hot.
- You don't need like cleavage during vintage time to scream
sexy.
- More thoughtful with the cut of things.
- Even with like vintage I'm like they thought backs were
sexy.
- Yeah.
- So they show a lot of that and it is sexy.
I love the belt. And I usually don't like belts.
- Saying.
- Someone's got a decision to make.
- Today was an amazing experience.
- Thank you.
The looks that you helped me pull,
even before I got here were very in line with my style and
my aesthetic and like what I want to give on a daily basis.
So I feel really grateful that you were here and let us into
your shop. And I just really appreciate it,
there were too many good options.
So that's my feedback for you.
I've never been this indecisive on what to wear after
leaving a store. Usually I'm cut and dry one and done go,
and thank you for giving me a few days. I think it over,
you know, fashion ain't easy.
- It was so much fun for me.
And I can't wait to see what you're going to decide on.
- Yes.
You can't make a wrong decision.
No.
- We'll be in touch. You guys have to wait.
So we're finally here the day of the holiday party.
I honestly also didn't choose a dress until like yesterday.
So there's that? I have my lovely hairstylist Nina here,
and we are going to be doing a very cool old Hollywood glam
hair look.
That I'm not going to tell you what it is,
cause you have to wait till at the end of the video.
(supense orchestra music)
Okay. So I decided on the 1960s, Emerald hourglass,
sequins dress. I am obsessed with it.
I think it fit my body really well.
The green color screams holiday cheer.
I think the dress really hits all the points in me looking
and feeling like an old Hollywood glam, bombshell,
but also appropriate for The Magic Castle.
So we finally made it to the holiday party.
Lindsay did not know which dress I ended up choosing.
- Listen,
I thought she was going to
go for red.
She was texting me like it's the red.
And I was like the red show holiday. It's so beautiful.
- Yeah.
But seeing you now here.
- Yeah.
- This is the moment
- But I thought this one really fit the vibe of the night.
Lindsay loved this one.
- I did love. I loved all of them.
- Yeah.
- I felt that the ground thousands of times.
- I'm really excited to just let loose at the holiday party.
We haven't been to one in a couple of years.
I can't wait to just like sit some Champaign,
shake a little booty. We did it.