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The Ultimate Guide to Shopping & Styling Vintage Clothing

The Ultimate guide to shopping and styling vintage clothing

Do you love vintage clothing? Do you know how to choose vintage clothing? Where to shop for vintage clothing? Or how to get the best deals for vintage clothing?

Everything you need to know is right here in my ultimate guide to shopping and styling vintage.

Yes I love vintage and yes I’m happy to share my obsession with the world. Why be a cookie cutter version of everyone else wearing the same clothing when you can stand out as an original wearing vintage?

Vintage helps save the environment. There are no down sides to wearing vintage. So without further adieu let’s discuss everything you ever needed to know about vintage clothing…

How to dress vintage as a couple.

What is vintage clothing?

Generally speaking, clothing which was produced before the 1920s is referred to as antique clothing and clothing from the 1920s to 20 years before the present day is considered vintage. Retro, short for retrospective, or “vintage style” usually refers to clothing that imitates the style of a previous era but was not actually created at that time.

How to wear vintage clothing for men and women

Where can I buy vintage clothing?

There are many places you can shop for vintage clothing. Ebay, Etsy (shop Vintage By Suzanne here ), estate sales, garage sales, vintage fairs, vintage shops consignment stores and thrift shops.  I go into detail on how to shop at vintage stores, consignment stores, thrift stores and estate sales but many of my same tips can be applied when you are shopping at garage sales, online or at a vintage fair.

Top tips how to choose and shop for vintage at vintage stores.

Shop for treasures I’ve curated for my Etsy store here. 

Everything you wanted to know about shopping and buying vintage clothing

 Top tips for shopping at estate sales.

How to shop at estate sales like a pro

Top tips for shopping at consignment stores.

How to shop at consignment stores like a pro.

Top tips for shopping at thrift stores.

How to shop at thrift stores.

Now that you scored some fab vintage clothing are you looking for ideas on how to style it? I’ve got you covered!

How to Style and wear vintage Dresses.

How to style a vintage dress

How to Style a vintage Pencil Skirt .

How to style a vintage pencil skirt

How to Style a vintage Bow Blouse .

How to style a pussy bow blouse

How to Style vintage palazzo and cigarette pants.

How to style vintage trousers

How to Style a vintage maxi skirt.

How to wear bold vintage maxi dresses.

Popular bloggers that wear vintage clothing well.

Additional brilliant blogs resources for all things vintage

Vintage Vixen

Vintage Style Files

Toronto Vintage Society

Porcelina’s World

I wear vintage clothing regularly on my blog and sell vintage in my online Etsy store so be sure to stop by to see the newest treasures I’ve found and how I’m styling them.

If you’re a vintage lover I’d love to hear from you! Drop me a line or send me a photo of you wearing your favourite items. Maybe I’ll feature you.

Now go forth with your new wisdom and spread the vintage love!

 

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