How To be a Vintage Expert

Nothing screams confidence like someone walking in with a vintage sweater and pair of original saddle shoes. Or someone donning an original Hermes silk scarf, or a gorgeous Yves Saint Laurent tweed 1970s car coat. 

Vintage feels nostalgic, it feels basementy and earthy, it smells like old perfume, cologne and has an already worn humaneness unlike any other pieces in your closet. If I could everything would be vintage even my bras. Vintage says sophistication, it speaks a language only people of that era speak. Its like putting a record on and dropping the needle and the crackle begins before the unparalleled sound  begins to transcend the room. 

Vintage puts you in a simple mindset, even if you didn't experience it, it begins to allow you to unravel. 

When you wear vintage pieces and patterns your known for your style, your presence your impeccable image. 

Vintage allows for experimentation with fabrics, with tones and variations. 

Vintage says class, simplicity and charisma, it’s also good for the earth. 

Louis Vuitton is priced 1000 percent over what its costs are. The highest margins on the market for coated canvas. Yes there is Epi, and it can last, but the markup alone is ludicrous not to mention the resources used to make one bag. 

I am sorry but in style and Bougie does not mean killing the planet and buying outrageously priced bags, and let me tell you a secret, rich people buy used more than anyone. What rich woman wants to spend $10,000 on a bag she will wear few times when she has retirement, and living in inflation to worry about. Rich people use coupons, shop at thrift stores and the dollar tree, they try to save a buck anyplace they can, that is why they are rich! All of these high markup brands cater to youth. When you’re young you see it, you want it, you buy it. Young people are brand and marketers dreams. They are fresh, impressionable and don’t save their money. So if you want to add vintage wears, furniture, art, jewelry to your persona, think simple, think well made, think impeccable. Start to look at the quality of things that are vintage, hold the item in your hand, look at the stitching or how the drawers are dovetailed. You will soon begin to understand why these things last and will continue to serve their purpose if well cared for, for years to come.

 Vintage is not often plastic, or robotically made-it may have been made by a machine, but not robotically, vintage often is not mass produced or made in factories. It has numbers on it, it has signatures its labels are sewn on with two stitches in each corner because often labels are removes from clothing as not to be shown. Showing labels is tacky and unsophisticated. No one wants mass produced, what everyone on the planet has, not if your confident, know your style and like well made items that last. 

Begin to know fabric names, furniture designers and soon you will walk into thrift stores and find the high quality pieces immediately. Vintage is not just a style but an embodiment of quality, rarity, and originality. It says during this time this was in, and its still in to me. 

When you decide on vintage, you take major considerations into account which means you think, you care what you buy, wear and style your surroundings with. 

Vintage says quality, sophistication and appreciation of older things made to last. After all it’s just stuff, but if you have to buy stuff, don’t you want the most unusual, amazing, different stuff? Or do you want the same stuff as everyone else? 

Buying vintage sets you apart from the crowd! And who in the hell wants to be like the crowd? 

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