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Blog - Vintage guides & inspiration

At Mondo Kaos, we have worked with vintage-inspired fashion, fit and feminine silhouettes for many years. Here you can find our guides to dresses, body shapes, decades, styling and the vintage universe – all in one place.

Whether you are looking for the right dress for your figure, want to dive into the 1940s, 1950s or 1960s, or need styling inspiration, you can start here.

Body shape & fit

Guides to silhouettes, fuller busts, fit and dress cuts.

Guides: Fit

Vintage & decades

The 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and vintage history.

Guides: Decades

Dresses & styling

Swing dresses, pencil dresses, cocktail dresses and styling.

Guides: Dresses

Mondo Kaos stories

Customer portraits, shoots, events and brand stories.

Mondo Stories
Sommerkjoler hos Mondo Kaos
Summer dresses at Mondo Kaos

Vintage style summer dresses Here at home, we have already felt the rush of summer for a few selected days. The temperature crept cautiously above 20 degrees and we can feel how we are g...

Historien om Trenchcoaten
The story of the Trenchcoat

The trench coat - from men's coat to fashion classic If you had to choose one coat, which one would it be? At Mondo Kaos, there is no doubt that we would choose the trench coat! A clas...

Forårsfornemmelser 🌸
Spring sensations 🌸

Who doesn't love spring? We went through the whole dark time, and wore so many layers, you had to calculate extra time to get out the door. But now you can feel how much daylight has increase...

The Seamstress of Bloomsbury
The Seamstress of Bloomsbury

The Seamstress of Bloomsbury is so much a part of Mondo Kaos that we use the 'nickname' Bloomsbury in everyday speech. As you can tell from the name, it is a British vi...

Genåbning - Velkommen og vigtig info
Reopening - Welcome and important info

Reopening in Mondo Kaos Dear everyone! Yay, we didn't dare hope for it, but now it's happening! The shops must open again. We are of course super happy about it, and ...

Forårsnyheder fra Palava
Spring news from Palava

We love our spring novelties, they always burst with life in the form of patterns and colors. They announce brighter and warmer times, while we still wrap ourselves in ...

En kort historie om lange bukser - til kvinder
A brief history of long trousers - for women

Today, few people can imagine a wardrobe without trousers of one kind or another. A pair of jeans, trousers for sports or 'jogging' trousers for relaxation, shorts, paj...

Kundeportræt - Daida
Customer portrait - Daida 💖

We continue to give you an insight into how some of our customers found us, what they love about the vintage style and what they pass the time with during the shutdown....

Be our Valentine ❤
Be our Valentine ❤️

How are you celebrating Valentine's Day this year? Do you celebrate Valentine's Day at all, and if you're single, are you a little tired of that day that's only for lover...

Kundeportrætter - Eva
Customer portrait - Eva ❤️

Today we are lucky enough that Eva will tell us about her Mondo Kao story and what inspired her to style herself in the vintage style. Name: Eva Sparre Age: 36 Occu...

Nyheder fra Nordic ShoePeople
News from Nordic ShoePeople

One of the best things about entering the new year is that we receive all the new items we have been looking forward to. Almost a year has passed since we placed the orde...

Mondo Kaos' Guide til nederdele
Mondo Kaos' Guide to Skirts

Skirts in Mondo Kaos In Mondo Kaos we have a multitude of different skirts . We are very keen that there are skirts for everyone's needs or style. Our ...

Vintage, retro og repro - hvad er hvad?
Vintage, retro and repro - which is which?

Hvad er egentlig vintage tøj, og hvad er forskellen på vintage, retro, second hand og reproduktion? Her guider vi dig gennem begreberne og viser, hvordan vintage-inspireret tøj kan bruges i en mode...

Historien om swingkjolen
The story of the swing dress

The swing dress At Mondo Kaos, we love a good swing dress, and it is one of the dresses we always have many of in our range. There must be swing dresses and swing ski...

Mondo Kaos’ store guide til Cocktailkjoler ✨
Mondo Kaos' big guide to Cocktail dresses ✨

December er jo en festtid, hvor de smukke kjoler rigtig kommer i brug. Særlig populært på denne tid er cocktailkjolen. I år bliver en anderledes højtid med færre fester og hyggelige sammenkomster...