Street Style: The Gatsby Garden Party at the Spadina Museum

Street Style: The Gatsby Garden Party at the Spadina Museum

This weekend, vintage-loving Torontonians stepped back in time for an idyllic afternoon of playing dress-up (and croquet) in the Spadina Museum’s annual Gatsby Garden Party. Picnickers took the 1920s theme seriously, arriving decked out head-to-toe in their best Gatsby-and-Daisy-inspired apparel. Here, a selection of perfectly put-together outfits that do F. Scott Fitzgerald proud.

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Katarina Poletto

22, Bakery owner
“My dress is an original piece, from 1924. An innkeeper at a 1920s mansion in Detroit gave it to me. She said she didn’t know anyone who would wear it and it would look great on me.”

 

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Rita Anderson

25, Hairdresser
“I wanted to look like Daisy Buchanan, with lots of bling and lace.”

Aristelle Koshkina

7, student
“My favourite colour is blue. I hate pink!”

 

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Michael Romaniuk

26, Graphic designer
“This is a piece from Brooks Brothers’ The Great Gatsby collection. I got the blazer 90 per cent off at the Niagara outlets.”

 

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Mercedes Campagna

21, Student
“I just watched The Great Gatsby and I love it. I wanted to look like Daisy today, but I ended up opting for a bit more colour—so now I’m more like Myrtle.”

 

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Geoff Holmes

52, Video producer
“My wife and I are swing dancers, so we do our best to look the part.”

 

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Assaf Weisz

31, Entrepreneur
“I’m a fortune-telling newspaper boy. This outfit is all vintage 1920s.”

 

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Natalya Willis

33, Manager
“I got the parasol at a vintage shop in Streetsville. I had the cover-up custom-made and crafted the headdress myself.”

 

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Alannah Metherel

26, Student
“I go antiquing a lot. I found the dress in Waterloo—it has an International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union tag, so you know it’s legit.”

 

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Rebecca Moranis

17, Student

Manon Ens-Lapointe

18, student
“We found these dresses at a vintage shop. The 1920s was the sports-revival era.”

 

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Marlena Marra (and one-year-old daughter, Ayla)

30, Teacher
“My friend is a really big Gatsby fan and she gave me this headpiece.”

 

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Mazda Amiryar

27, Graphic designer
“My girlfriend signed us up for this. I researched what to wear and found this jacket at a costume shop.”

 

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Jessica Pelchat

30, Business strategist
“This outfit is the result of a lot of Kensington market raiding, combined with my grandmother’s purse and earrings.”

 

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Alex Lau

34, IT consultant
“I had most of this in my closet as well. We wanted to stick to a lighter colour scheme.”

Cindy Chiu

29, X-Ray technologist
“This look is a combination of different pieces I’ve picked up travelling. It just sort of came together.”

 

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Allie Banks

23, Bartender
“I really want to win the costume contest this year. I would have won last year, but I left early. I couldn’t wear the same outfit so I went for a darker colour scheme this year. Everything was already in my closet except for the 1920s sunglasses.”

 

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Michele Lee

40, Media ops coordinator
“I bought this dress at a consignment store called Second Nature. I was keeping my eyes open for something light.”

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