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- Lolita Hearts
- Pink peacock earrings
- Flower necklace
- dainty lace gloves (precious!)
To be entered, tell us in comments about your favorite vintage find & how you obtained it. (For example, mine would be this blue coat I found in a vintage shop in Sacramento, CA.) Winner will be picked randomly the night of Sunday, March 22nd!
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I actually didn’t buy my favorite vintage find. I got it from my grandmothers house. It’s a box of old records that I got last easter and it had not only records, but some posters, stickers and random notes! I love it because the albums are great. Lou Reed, Talking Heads, Fleetwood Mac and even John Lennon’s “Imagine”! I also love the fact that they belonged to my mom and my uncles.
I would say my favorite vintage find was an Oscar de la Renta Maxi sun dress =) Being the Ebay stalker for vintage finds that I am, I saw this and couldn’t believe it. $.99 for authentic? It couldn’t be! After all was said and done, I own it now for $19.95 with the shipping, and I absolutely ADORE it! (and yes, it IS real. Its just back at the very beginning when he was launching his own label shortly after designing for Elizabeth Arden!) No pictures yet, as its too cold up here in Minnesota to wear it out properly, but I love pairing it with my black Nina multi-color heeled sandals, a black belt that ties and knots in the front, and of course, my large-brimmed cream-colored hat! It will be total beach perfection come this summer =)
Definitely my bright purple suede flats with the biggest, cutest bows ever. I got them for $2!
a gorgeous silver and diamante brooch that breaks away to form a pair of earrings! It was a gift from my friend- it was her grandmother’s and her father was going to throw it away! The horror!!
Oh deere… there is so much!
But I have to choose my latest find; my mom and I was looking in her closet for a black cardigan. But then I found this turquoise adidas jacket from the 80′s. Mint condition!
I fell in love… and it has these huge fluffy arms and it’s just wonderful ^^
Every year at Christmas/my birthday my grandma gives me a box of her old buttons. We both sew and she loves to dig through and find old treasures for me. I LOVE getting them and love finding things to put them on.
Mine’s actually a dress I had when I was about six. My mom gave me $5 and said I could spent it on anything I wanted. So I found this little purple dress that came down to my knees, it was flowery, had long sleeves and little sparkly buttons. It was exactly $5 =] And that was my first ever bargain/vintage find.
OH MAN I have this amaaazing black dress with a lime green lining that I got on ebay for 15$. I get soooo many compliments on it– I wish I had a picture! I actually had one girl ask ‘who makes your dress?’ as if it were a designer piece… haha!
My favourite vintage clothing is a dress that I my mother gave me, that she once got from my Grandfather. (Whom I never met because he died before I was born.) The dress is very beautiful! :) (No pictures though.)
I’d have to say my favorite vintage find is a hat. It has a black cap white a white rim. It has a black feather and a small black fishnet-esque veil that can be pulled down in the front. I bought it in Mt. Dora in Florida, a town that is known for its antiques shops. After I bought the hat, a couple of old folks from Virginia asked if they could take a photograph with me while I wore the hat. Pretty neat experience to go along with a pretty neat hat.
My favorite vintage find is a winter coat I found recently at Volunteers of America. Its bright red, with faux fur collar and cuffs.
I pulled it out from the rack and my friend immediately said “You HAVE to get that!” And it fit perfectly, so how could I say no?
Eight dollars and fifty cents later (I was ridiculously excited at this point) I had a brand new coat. All I’ve done is reattach some of the fur and replace the buttons.
Then, the best part, investigating further, by concensus of my mother (who sews quite a bit) and I, it seems to be handmade.
I felt really lucky that day…
Mine is definitely the most beautiful pair of black lace gloves ever… :)) I found them while looking through an antique chest at my grandmother’s house. They’re so Alice in the Wonderland, lovely! :) <3
I have a cropped Michael Jackson tank top with a giant screen on the back of Billie Jean, a seductive woman in a bilowing green dress with a lot of leg!
Hmm, my favourite vintage find would have to be my pewter beads, which are MASSIVE, and totally cute. I bought them in an underground store in downtown Vancouver and wear them all the time. :]
My best vintage find was a pair of multicolored suede heels that happen to be wearing as I type. When ModCloth (which I adore, BTW — Yay for pairing with them!) started featuring fans’ finds on their blog, I sent in a pic of them (http://www.modcloth.com/store/images/Fav_find_shoes.jpg) that let my shoes be shown to the whole fashion world. I love these shoes and wear them any and every time I can. I found them in a bin full of shoes at a garage sale — for six bucks! I love the crap out of them.
Mine would have to be my grandmothers pearls or her onyx ring that she gave me a few years ago. She bought the pearls when she was young, but the ring is a lot older, she got it from her aunt. I hardly ever wear it, because I’m scared of damaging it, but it looks absolutely beautiful.
Jaye xx
I would have to say my favorite vintage find would be this delightful gold belt I have that is designed to look like a snake. I remember eyeing one similar in the Urban Outfitters catalog and thinking it was neat, but definitely not worth the outrageous price tag. Lo and behold, while vintage shopping with my close friends, I found one exactly like it…maybe even better! It’s shiny, gold, with a little mouth the opens and closes so it can bite it’s tail and form a belt :) I love it! And it adds something interesting to any outfit.
Mine would definitely have to be a pair of opera length gloves in apple green in a soft as silk knit. They’re so perfect for everything from glam to the military look and they make me feel utterly feminine with everything.
They were at a vintage thrift shop, hidden behind some truly atrocious handbags. I suspect someone was hiding them until they could come back for them. Oops.
My best vintage find was a black pleather trenchcoat that I found in a Church second-hand store. It buttons all the way up, and it has a matching belt around the waist. It makes me look like a matrix extra, and I love it. :D
A friend of mine gave me this really great white dress. It made me feel like a princess to wear it :)
my favoritest ever vintage find… that’s so hard! i guess if i had to choose it would be my gorgeous black tutu with the golden sequins sparkling all over it. it doesn’t get much of a chance to see the outside world (since my pre-al teacher would probably ask why I am dressing like a five year old when I am in the seventh grade, not to mention it’s about five inches too short for the dress code), so i wear it whenever i can. I even wore it to the school dance once and earned the nickname Disco Ball! I got it for $5 at this amazing garage sale that was at this beautiful Victorian house and I remember it mostly because they played Safety Dance. <333
Of course my vintage hat from the 40′s ! Green, so soft with its lovely bow… It was the first time I went to this vintage shop in paris, and the seller told me her usual customers were fashion designer or theatre actors, and that she didnt know “what I would do with this wonderful hat” I finally bought it and love to wear it !
my best vintage find was buying this 1970s (I think? It’s a real 1970s) dress (http://www.strangedaysthese.com/1970sdress.JPG) at a real vintage store in Bethlehem called Underwired. :)
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My favorite vintage find is actually something my mother found. The week before she was getting married, after having picked out all her wedding stuff months before, she went out to get a pastrami-on-rye, and saw a no-name vintage dress in a shop window. She knew it was HER dress.
The dress is an ivory confection from the 1950s, strapless, with a fitted bodice, and a HUGE ankle-length skirt.
It’s also the type of dress that needs those annoying bra inserts to keep it up. In her wedding video, my mom can be seen pulling the pads out, and throwing them into the crowd, instead of tossing her bouquet.
I plan to wear that dress when I get married (and possibly continue the pad-tossing tradition).
hmm, my favorite would probably be an eyelet lace skirt that my mom found at an estate sale… i can never figure out what to wear with it, but it sure is pretty!
Here we really don’t have used clothes store or vintage clothes.
But to be hones, I don’t even need it, simply because my grandma saves every single cloth she ever had worn (and not to say even what my mom has worn).
But until two years ago, I really thought about that stuff as ‘junk’. Because, well who knew by then about vintage fashion? Well it surly wasn’t me.
But one of that days I went on a treasure hunt. I wanted something unique, and since my grandma always offered me all of those clothes, I said that I shall give it a try!
So I went and I really fell in love with a brown vintage 6 buttoned coat. It’s amazing! The buttons were off, but I didn’t care since my grandma saved them, so I could sew them on!
And you know what? The coat makes me really feminine, it’s brown but it looks so classy, that when I wore it for the first time everyone was asking me where did I get it.
And I told them the truth.. that it’s a 50 years old coat, that my mom wore it when she was young and then my grandma save it.
But in most cases I just smile, because it really is a treasure…
My fave vintage find is probably my hot pink and black dress that i wore to my junior prom. It’s knee length, with a tutu of like 15 layers of black and pink mesh and lace, and a metallic pink bodice covered in black lace. There’s beading on the bust and a HUGE bow of black mesh with metallic pink polka dots on the butt. I know it sound hideous but it’s AMAZING.
I saw it in the window of Uncle Margaret’s, a vintage shop in my town, and NEEDED IT, fiercely. Called my mom and she and her friend came to pick me up and see the dress. It was maybe $50 or so but the woman who owns the shop gives you a discount if you answer a trivia question correctly. We chose the literature category and the question was, “Who wrote Slaughterhouse five?”
Kurt Vonnegut lives in my town. I went to school with his grandson.
I love my dress. It was teeny tiny and i had to let out the bust. But it. is. magic.
Pretty much half of my wardrobe is vintage, but this story is about my weirdest vintage find.
I was working through a pile of clothes, when I saw a flash of fabric I recognized. And there it was, a furry blue cardigan, the exact twin of one I bought more than 10 years prior. The only difference was that mine was way more worn than the one I pulled from the pile.
I kept looking for more stuff, saving the cardigan to replace it with the old one, when my mom approaches me and asks why did I bring my cardigan when it was so hot. So, at leatts for a while, I owned two identical cardigans.
My favorite vintage item is a gold mirror compact I bought in a huge antique “mall.” The place has since been demolished which is a real bummer because there was always some really cool and equally creepy things you could find in there. We used to have tons of antique shops in my town, they’ve moved and been replaced with a super wal-mart…yaaaay:(
An old beatles T shirt in a fleemarket (Portabello) in Notting Hill in London!
Oooh that coat (and those tights) are amazing!
My favourite finds are always the petticoats I find in pristine condition.
Lately I found a bright red one in a thrift store with the old old tag still attached. Awesome!
My school puts on a dance show every year, and this year I’m in the Grease dance. I found the perfect vintage 50′s dress in this style [URL=http://img509.imageshack.us/my.php?image=2437884868cd9668de5.jpg][IMG]http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/3742/2437884868cd9668de5.th.jpg[/IMG][/URL] However, the one I found is pink with white polka dots! I’m definitely not just wearing it for the show. I’m going to wear it all of the time.
A creepy old-looking mano cornuta charm (metal horns) that I found in an antique store. It’s probably cursed but I wear it anyways.
When I was about 10, I was rollerskating down the hill that I lived on. I saw that my neighbors who were moving, had thrown out a lot of stuff. The one thing that caught my eye was a large sparkly beaded belt that was definitely too big for me to wear back then, but now it’s one of my favorite accessories! The owner told me that it had belonged to her grandmother but since she never wore it, they decided to throw it out! The horror! But the best part was that it was free! =D
My black satin clutch with gold clasp I found at an antique store in Oklahoma for $3.00!
Mine would have to be a pair of sandals I took from my mother, who stopped wearing them a long time ago, when she started to develop bunions. They had a loop that went around the big toe, which had a metal covering on it so it looked like a toe ring. I loved those shoes and I wore them to shreds haha. I wish I hadn’t though, I’ve not been able to find sandals as comfortable! I wouldn’t be able to fit them anymore anyway though, as me feet have grown since then. Nowadays I use their memory as a standard by which I judge the comfort of all the shoes I plan to buy.
My favorite would definetly be an awsome lepard print dress I found a year ago.
Mine is a lovely 60′s high waisted skirt, covered in sequins, that i got in a vintage store near my house. Whenever i wear it i feel like a sexy alien from star trek, lol!
My favorite vintage find would have to be an old photo album I found in Findley. The faces in the old photographs reminded me of my family… and it turned out that it was my great great grandmothers photo album :)
It was crazy coincidental.
My favorite vintage piece are my pop-it pearls that used to belong to my grandmother. They look just like real pearls but they are actually plastic beads that can pop together and be made to any length–my favorite is pearl choker of course! They definitely aren’t produced anymore:(
So far my favorite vintage find so far was this wonderful wool, gray and blue plaid fedora that I got for fifty cents at a thrift store in PA. I recently looked up the brand (it slips my mind) and it’s some company that closed back in the fifties I believe, over in England.
My favorite vintage find would be a pair of huge,round, brown sunglasses that my grandmother had when she was younger. They are crazy big. I found them in a dresser at her house.
I remember playing dress up in a blue gown, a old scarf and those glasses. I’d walk around all day like that. Every time I went to my grandmother’s I’d look forward to just playing dress up.
:)
My most favorite vintage find would have to be the most gorgeous pair of silk black gloves. My Grandma had charged me with cleaning out her upstairs spare room, which had become inundated with boxes and other junk. In the bottom of a box of old lace curtains and table clothes (Also a great find!), I found a pair of black wrist-length gloves, semitransparent, with long delicate fingers, and the most gorgeous little ruffle on the hem. The seaming on each finger is amazing; there’s actually two pieces for the top and bottom of the glove, and a piece that goes inbetween each two fingers, resulting in a truly perfect fit that you just don’t get with modern two-piece gloves.
I showed them to my Grandma, and she even dug out the picture of the full ensemble; an adorable Jackie-O style powder blue dress with black trimmings and the gloves with a jaunty little hat to match. I’m still hoping I’ll find those someday :3
For now, these gloves are a staple in my accessory wardrobe. They’re so cute and versatile, you can dress ‘em up or down. And every good goth girl needs a lovely pair of gloves.
I *wish* I had a better picture of this piece, but it’s is at my mom’s house on the other side of the state. This is the only picture I could find of me wearing the coat (http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y27/asphyxiad0ll/omgtehsam.jpg)
My favorite vintage find ever is a long black coat made of low pile faux fur. It has a little fake belt that goes around the back to make the coat more fitted, and 6 big gold buttons in the front (3 work, 3 are for show). The buttons eventually started falling off, so I grabbed some opalescent pink buttons from a craft store and sewed them on myself to make it a bit more unique. I found it at a vintage store in Pittsburgh’s South Side called Yesterday’s News, and I immediately fell in love.
A vintage kimono – navy blue with Japanese cranes flying across it. I’ve worn it over and over to multiple events, and always get tons of compliments. No one has ever seen anything like it – and I “found” it in a Christmas box given to me by my sister and her new hubby.
My favorite vintage find was a cameo necklace, from my aunt, a vintage jewelry fanatic…I’m a sucker for victorian things! :)
I don’t have any photos, but my favourite vinage finds are several pairs of adorable earrings that belonged to my Mum when she was 16. There’s a pair of deep pink roses, a pair of bluebirds, and some tiny silver hoops with a loveheart pattern on them. They’re so lovely, and I wear them constantly :)
I *almost* had a couple of dresses from my mom, that I was going to wear in a school play, but then the play didn’t happen, and I don’t know what happened to the dresses :(
My mom did, though, give me a pretty crystal necklace from the 80′s(my favorite piece of hte stuff she gave me) that has a unicorn on it. :)
My favorite vintage find was an amazing, we called it the Snow White coat. all faux fur in black, but with white trim at the cuffs on bottom hem. So sexy and dressy – sigh I miss that coat…