Hate the way modern fashions treat your curves? Go retro.

Like a lot of women, I admire the style icons of the past –Veronica Lake, Lauren Bacall, Katharine Hepburn, Jane Russell, Monroe and Bardot. But though I have long preferred pre-loved furniture and decor, I never quite embraced the fashions of old. Mostly this was because, at six foot tall, nothing authentically vintage ever fitted me, and I had little idea of how to translate those lovely looks of the past into a modern life.Pandora English and her great aunt Celia wear vintage fashion throu...