Vintage clothing has always been a bit of a secret passion of mine. Back in the day, when momma Saynt couldn’t afford to get us name brand, we’d shop spots like Salvation Army, Goodwill, and a slew of NYC vintage shops for my wardrobe. Growing up poor gave me a broader appreciation for well made clothes and an undoubting hatred for moths (vile dusty butterflies, if you ask me).

I guess that’s one of the reasons I love The Family Vintage, an ebay shop run by one of our cult members. Check out what they have in store this week.

LINK LOVE: http://www.cultindie.com/xn/detail/2394740:BlogPost:67924

Super cute, modern take on vintage, dress by Free People. Love the colors and the open back, and for $108 you can’t go wrong.

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Kate Moss has released the ads for her 4th consecutive women’s fragrance. Vintage is a unique blend of fruity smelling scents that produce that perfect bottled-up perfume. The fragrance, which will be sold in conjunction with other body products, will hit store shelves this September.

LINKAGE: NYMag

These shots of Kate the Great we’re just uncovered from the Dazed & Confused magazine archives. You’ll never guess the stylist!!!

I’m all for the 80’s comeback if you leave the shoulder pads at home, but this edit is so 80’s inspired I had to think twice before titling this post “Vintage Spread-Um”. There’s a grainy tonal quality to these photos that leads me to believe they have been sitting under someone’s bed gathering dust for the last 25 years. Perfectly vintage inspired or super dated? Check the gallery on cult to decide.

GALLERY: Midtown Crisis for QVEST

SOUCE: Fashion Gone Rouge

Check out the entire article on Dazed Digital!

Bitching & Junkfood is a new, killer vintage store. They sell mostly 80s and 90s, and keep your eye on this site, every once in awhile they’re going to feature stuff for free. That’s right, FREE. They don’t announce when/where, but it’s a true story! Check out what they have here.

SOURCE: Kingdom Of Style

LA nightlife photographer the Cobrasnake just starting selling vintage on his website. The goods being offered are neon fanny packs, see-through jumpsuits, off-the-shoulder leopard-print unitards, and so forth. He also seems to be specializing in t-shirts that people wore at overnight camp in 1992, like the above.

This may be the one and only time that I compliment Amber Rose on her look, but I can’t deny the coolness of these vintage Chanel shades. The chain is sick (that would be Bronx speak for uber hot) and love the magenta lipstick with the bright green leather jacket. Now, where’s Kanye???

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Mad Men’s costume director reveals that vodka is the secret ingredient in a mixture that will remove that moth balls, sweat and death stench from your vintage finds. It can also be used to make a killer cocktail.

I feel like there has been too much bad fashion this weekend. I thought I would end with a vintage Moment of Style. Here’s Renee Zellweger, pre-lemon face, at the Oscar’s in 2001

So what exactly is the definition of vintage? We’ve been wondering ever since a buyer friend of ours tried to claim her H&M skirt was vintage cause she bought it two seasons ago. We found an answer to the question on Catwalk Creative, an online UK shopping site that specializes in goodies from a past era.

As a relatively new term, its meaning is open to much interpretation. Dealers haven’t officially established what defines and differentiates vintage from antique, recycled (secondhand) and retro. Consumers – and some dealers – use the word ‘vintage’ as a collective term that defines anything old. For clarification, purists would categorize ‘old clothes’ as the following:

• Antique clothing refers to any garments that pre-date 1920 (the nineteenth century; the Belle Epoque era).
• Vintage is anything that dates after 1920 and up to the mid 1980s.
• Retro mainly refers to Sixties’ and Seventies’ casual wear.
• Recycled (secondhand) is anything post early Eighties – not strictly ‘vintage’ clothing in the generic sense of the word.

If you can’t remember all of the above, remember only this: anything less than twenty to twenty-five years old is NOT ‘vintage’.

So rocking a pair of bleached overalls you found at Goodwill that look like they fell of the set of Saved by the Bell doesn’t make you a vintage queen. Keep that in mind indies as style quickly falls into 90’s.  You’re not rocking vintage, you’re rocking recycled.

Above T-shirt designed by artist Kenzo Minami for Alex + Chloe.  Enzyme washed for a great vintage affect and feel. Available for $154 on their site.

Thanks Highsnobette for pointing this out.

Here is a scan from an old issue of Elle Magazine dating back to 1989.

Look what we used consider fashionable!

Aren’t you glad the lace-up-oversized-blazers never caught on!

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‘look ma, no photoshop’

Many indie girls shed a tear when indie label Mooka Kinney disbanded. But indie-girls have no fear, one-half of the design duo Rachel Antonoff has started her own label and asked her famous friends to model. Take a peek at Antonoff’s lookbook featuring Arrested Development’s Alia Shawkat and A-lister Scarlett Johansson. Expect loads of vintage silhouettes and lots of details. 

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