Category: Wonderings
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How the fashion industry failed women
But failed quality, generally. The little details and finishing touches that used to whisper quality and care have disappeared. In their place, ubiquitous boring buttons, plastic zips that break and no seam allowances to help your clothes fit you forever. Fabric yardage One of the things you’ll see vintage sellers saying is, ‘this garment has…
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Remixing old pinnies
Welcome to the most earnest thing I’ve ever written. Can’t help it, this is a hyperfixation: antique aprons. Yes, aprons. They’re gorgeous, they’re available and they’re cheap. If you like patterns and pockets, get yourself some vintage pinnies. Things to do with vintage aprons and pinnies Man, it’s too thrilling to me?! This is the…
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Mixing original and reproduction vintage
80s-does-20s. 70s Victorian prairie. 90s goth. 00s-does-70s Victorian prairie. Every decade has its revivals. They’re not always spot-on because they’re trends rather than replicas, so each decade sees other decades through a specific cultural lens. That’s fascinating. It’s like watching the many adaptations of Jane Austen books. That’s a recognisably Regency dress – but with…
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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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