Author: Arch Copy
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How to style: vintage layering
A cool thing about older vintage and antique clothes is that they were intended to be worn over foundation garments, and mixed and matched in layers, so are often transparent. That makes styling for modern tastes a lot of fun, because you can layer over jeans, go for crazy underwear or bare it all. Giving…
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Styling vintage underwear as outerwear
Why am I asking you to go outside dressed in someone’s old pants? Because underwear is one of the easiest and cheapest entries to wearing vintage. However, it’s probably a pretty big mental hurdle if you’re not used to styling unusual garments. There is a lot of vintage and antique underwear available to buy. Partly,…
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How to start hunting vintage
Eighty per cent of my wardrobe belonged to someone who is now dead. The slight scent of mildew and engrained perfume is my signal to the world that I am Doing My Bit for the environment and our sartorial history. How to begin your vintage journey 1. Refine your search eBay My obsession with vintage…
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This house
This house was a sad thing. She’d sat, weeping, for decades – unloved, undone. I wanted her because she was cheap, but also for her long upstairs corridor and her proximity to both sea and river. She’s not fancy, not in the slightest. She’s a red-brick Victorian semi, just one shabby old lady amongst millions…
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Wild knowledge
There’s a certain kind of knowledge you can find peace in. It’s quiet, it’s not clever, but it’s a grounding force inside you. The folk names of plants. How a valley came to be. Where wild raspberries grow. The phases of the moon. A pinch of salt in chocolate, a pinch of sugar on tomatoes.…
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