Modern Vintage Homes & Leisure Lives by Samantha Holland

Author:Samantha Holland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

Joan:I am a part of Facebook groups with like-minded people, and I learn a lot by asking them questions. I also research and read period sources to see how they maintained their clothing. Lastly, I read lots of vintage blogs!

Photo 6.1Betty’s handbag and bangle collection (Photo: Author’s own)

Ava, Betty, Harry, Rita, Orson, Ginger, Dorothy, Grace, Gloria, Eartha, and Lucille all said they had learnt to see authentic vintage items in charity shops or at markets and so on, from a distance—or could feel from the quality of things as they passed the rails which was ‘true vintage’ and which was modern. Obviously this is not a skill necessary or possible via the internet. This skill was seen as a test, a badge of authenticity, an ability to correctly identify correctly—and in many ways was a skill which indicated a long-term commitment, because it could only be learnt in physical shops and not online, by handling and comparing material goods. My conversation with Grace was typical:Grace:And the thing is, a lot of stuff isn’t labelled, for a start, so you can’t—I’ve got a label resource with the Vintage Fashion Guild, so they do a lot. I’ve got tons of books. I used to buy all the old magazines, anything, any old magazines that’ve got fashion in, I buy them because they are of the time, they are not a current book about the past, so the details are better. And then I suppose you just get to know, don’t you? … It’s the same as if you go in a charity shop; you can walk in, and from the door I tend to know straight away … You know when you see a bit of fabric on a rail or something? You can sort of see it from the door.

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