Vintage Clothing_541

Vintage Clothing



Vintage clothing - original, green and unique Here at Two Little Birds Boutique in Falmouth, we love Vintage clothing because it is unique, good quality, a source of inspiration and an evironmentally friendly way to shop. With Two Little Birds you can look great, be original and be green. Enjoy our vintage clothing lens! |||At Two Little Birds Boutique, we stock vintage clothing and vintage homeware from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. So what really is 'vintage clothing'? Vintage clothing is just a generic term that's used for both new or second hand garments originating from a previous era. So it can mean a lot of different things when it's used. The word vintage is copied from its use in wine terminology, as a more elegant-seeming euphemism for "old" clothes.

Generally speaking, clothing which was produced before the 1920s is referred to as antique clothing and clothing from the 1920s to 1980s is considered vintage. Retro, short for retrospective, or "vintage style" usually refers to clothing that is imitation vintage, i.e. it imitates the style of a previous era. Reproduction, or repro, clothing is a newly-made but faithful copy of an older garment. Clothing produced more recently is usually called modern or contemporary fashion. Opinions vary on these definitions - so when you're buying vintage, retro or something similar, you need to check what the seller really means.

There's something sentimental as well as ecological about the awakened interest in garments made of vintage fabric. The recycling aspect is also a satisfaction to most buyers. Further, buyers realise they couldn't duplicate the handwork they are getting at anywhere near the price they are paying -- if indeed they could find comparable handwork in new apparel.

Despite vintage clothing being hugely fashionable, it's rarely priced sky high - most vintage clothing boutiques are "affordable." And the clothes incorporate handwork that is rarely done today so they represent really good value for money.

As well as day to day vintage wear, brides find the sheer, be-laced garments of the Victorian period especially appealing.|||So, for vintage clothing, vintage day dresses, vintage evening dresses, vintage jackets, vintage coats, vintage swimwear, vintage nightwear, vintage tops, vintage knitwear and vintage accessories - here's all the links you need! Vintage day dresses Vintage day dresses Vintage evening dresses Vintage evening dresses Vintage jackets and coats Vintage jackets and vintage coats Vintage swimwear and nightwear Vintage swimwear and vintage nightwear Vintage tops Vintage tops Vintage knitwear Vintage knitwear Vintage bags and belts Vintage bags and vintage belts Vintage hats Vintage hats Vintage jewellery Vintage jewellery Vintage tights and stockings Vintage tights and vintage stockings More vintage jewellery More gorgeous vintage jewellery.|||That's the million pound question - and the answer is easy. It looks authentic because it is. Vintage clothing is "a million of one-of-a-kind" garments. Unique style is an affordable option if you're willing to look at vintage clothing. And it's a good bet no one else will show up in the same outfit.

There's no point in buying a reproduction of a period classic when you have an original. You can be as elegant, hippie, funky or punky as you want while cultivating a unique look within a tight budget.

Vintage boutiques like ours are goldmines for original fashion. You can sometimes find a slew of '40s and '50s cashmere sweaters, antique designer labels and some never-worn outfits and trousseau items from the '50s. The collection of menswear is just as likely to be bought by females. And resourceful students - male and female - have discovered that old elegance makes perfect prom wear.|||No true romance should ever be cheap - unless it's an old love.

Finding romance via designer labels can prove pricey. But you don't have to look for love in all the expensive places.

With the romantic look harking back to historical times, vintage shops offer the real things without the heavy price tag. But finding these hidden treasures requires patience to comb the cluttered stores that are half filled with junk, half with antiques. Not all boutiques are that way of course, and our boutique in Falmouth is devoid of granny coats and boots - instead, you'll find an amazing range of vintage clothing and vintage homeware to suit every taste.

There's prices to suit all pockets because the romantic look need not destroy the pocketbook. At the cost of searching busy stores with remnants from the Edwardian period to the Beatle era, vintage shops can be a thrifty path to today's fashions. And of course, for special occasions, there's some designer originals too - sitting alongside retro homeware you may find that Couture Andrea Odicini designer vintage dress tucked away and waiting to be found.|||At Two Little Birds we've just added two new ranges to the boutique collection. The first is Moomins - everyone loves the Moomins but did you know they're not English or American as you might have thought but the brainchild of Swedish-Finn illustrator and writer Tove Jansson? They were originally published in Swedish, in Finland. They're as vintage as you can get, with their books and comic strip spanning 1945 to 1993 - but you'll know them from their popular television series and films. Did you also know you can visit Moomin World in Finland? Anyway, our range includes some lovely Moomin shopper bags and a lot more, check it out.

Our next addition is based on gorgeous vintage owls and I really love this style. From vintage style cushions to vintage style hair clips, you'll love these cute little owls that really capture a vintage feel.|||Okay - so vintage clothing doesn't have to be expensive - but sometimes it is! Check this out! (sourced from the New York Times)

When outstanding period clothing appears on the market, enthusiastic collectors and dealers willing to pay extraordinary prices vie eagerly for the chance to buy. In one case a 1920's tea gown by Mariano Fortuny, the Venetian artist-designer, sold for $7,000, a record for the designer and the highest price ever paid at public sale for a period gown.

What may prove to be an even more exciting challenge to the market is the offering of what is a remarkable rarity - a suit by Coco Chanel dating from 1926 or 1927. The three-piece, silk-lined, feather-light wool classic consists of a skirt with camisole top, a blouse and jacket in buff and Navy blue. Gene London, the dealerowner who heads Gene London Design Associates, 106 East 19th Street, will part with the 50-year-old treasure for $25,000. Judy Straeten, his associate, who was formerly an assistant curator at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, recalled why she decided it was extremely important.

"I was still at the Met when Gene called me about the suit," she said. "I said 'Are you certain? Such a suit doesn't exist. It's like hen's teeth.'" Miss Straeten commented that the staff of the Costume Institute had looked in vain all over the world for such a suit in preparing the show ''The Tens, The Twenties, The Thirties: Inventive Clothes: 1909-1939,'' which was held at the museum in 1973-74. The Met went to the trouble of having a reproduction made by the House of Chanel.

''And then a period one turns up on Gramercy Park!'' Miss Straeten exclaimed. Why did so few survive? She explained that either Chanels were so wearable they wore out and were thrown away, or that most people did not save daytime clothes.

''I had no idea of its value.'' At first, he said, he thought it was worth about $1,200, but a curator at a museum appraised it at $5,000. Why is he asking five times that amount? ''It is rare -no one seems to have seen another one,'' Mr. London remarked. ''And it is a pivotal piece of the period, a turning point in fashion that happens to be so wearable today. To me it is a cloth work of art.'' One expert said t hat early Chanel suits are not that rare and this one is probably w orth one-fifth of that price.

Beverley Birks, a dealer, who views antique clothing as underpriced -especially when compared to modern clothing - questioned the $25,000 price on the Chanel. ''If there had been a Poiret, a Lanvin or a Fortuny at $25,000, that would be another story,'' said Miss Birks, who works out of her apartment at 1215 Fifth Avenue (at 102d Street). ''At that price it is the most important piece of clothing of the 20th century. If the suit is unique and therefore priceless, that would justify the price.''

''I think that right now we are definitely in a bit of a recession,'' said Judy Collier, the clothing specialist at Christie's East, Christie's annex at 219 East 67th Street, following a sale 11 days ago of moderate-priced clothing at which the better things sold high but lesser works brought modest prices or did not sell. However, in a Christie's auction scheduled for Oct. 14 there are many plums, including 13 Fortuny dresses from $500 to $2,000 and several selections by Worth, the most important of which is a 1920's opera coat in burnt orange that is puffy and embellished with beaded sleeves, which may sell for up to $600.

The Fortuny 1920's tea gown that rewrote the record was sold at Sotheby Parke's York Avenue Galleries Sept. 15. What made the tightly pleated silk gown the object of intense bidding was the color - a true black - and the shiny patina. Nothing in Sotheby's upcoming sale of Harriet Bishop Lanier's costume collection on Oct. 20 is expected to surpass this high. The collection comprises numerous prizes dating from the 1830's to 1930.

And there is one Fortuny - a gauze cape from a decade earlier than the record-breaking gown, a two-tiered waist-length design stenciled in gilt, edged in lace and embellished with Venetian glass beads - that may bring up to $1,200. On Dec. 8 Sotheby's will offer 10 Fortuny gowns, the most important of which is bright white and is estimated to sell for about $5,000.



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