Friday, September 16, 2011

Vintage clothes shopping tips - ten tips for new collectors of Vintage fashion


The demand for high quality, stylish clothing vintage is increasing and shows no sign of stopping anytime soon.

After many years for me and buy vintage clothing collection inventory of my vintage fashion business, I am very aware of how the supply is declining steadily. This resulted in the increase in prices, especially of vintage clothing and dress clothes perĂ­odas in the best condition.   So, if you're new to the collection of vintage fashions, have together my top ten tips for spending your money wisely and become a more clever vintage buyer.

1 Take measures first thing you should do before your next shopping trip get a tape of yourself and take their own measures. This is especially useful if you are planning to buy clothing vintage online depending on the garment measurements are included in the description of the article. Very often, items are not returnable or replenishment rates are available to restore things.  Announced measures, you can easily compare with the item you want to purchase, thus ensuring the correct setting.  In addition, take a tape measure in her handbag for which practical elements of measure is out of purchases that cannot be proven.

2 Know your ERAS read everything it can about vintage fashion to identify characteristics of distinctive style of specific times. Books on fashion history, fashion vintage and catalogs & magazines internet searches even unearth a wealth of information.

3 Know your body type determine what time is a lifestyle more improve the form of the specific organ. So do not invest in clothing vintage who feel changes in his cabinet because not pander to you.

4 Familiarize themselves with COLLECTIBLE designer labels but it happens infrequently, dressed in vintage to get tergiversados by having labels designers sewn them to extract a higher price. Therefore helps to familiarize themselves with their labels and collectibles designers styles. The Vintage fashion Guild has a resource online label designer is a useful reference.  Purchase of a renowned distributor also ensures that you get what you paid.

5 Carefully inspect the Mint vintage clothing condition, especially stock changes, is very rare. So most collectors hope vintage clothing to show some evidence of previous wear many vendors online disclosure all the problems of status in the descriptions of their vintage clothing. So you know in advance what you are getting. Brick and mortar store, clothes show vintage or flea market that will have to get together with a good source of light with its vintage clothing, as most of the articles are sold as is. If you discover an error that can not live with later, probably not you return her.

6 Check for spots FADING and fabric bleaching except its vintage discovery is really cheap and you want to experiment with stain removal, hardly buy anything with notable spots, especially in the areas of armpits. Most of the older spots are set on a permanent basis.

7 Take a WHIFF smell smoke or perspiration do not usually come from vintage clothing, unless it is a washable fabric that can be soaked. Dry cleaning usually does not eliminate these odors.

8 Suits and look tears and holes Vintage wool sweaters are prone to damage from moth. A couple of discrete mothbites is fine, but reweaving can be quite expensive. So something may happen with numerous holes of moth.  Dressed in vintage also may have holes or tears. If they are large enough and that it will still be very notable even with expert repairs, then leave it in the rack.  Seams that they need a bit of restitching or tiny holes that are lost in the folds of a skirt are acceptable.

9 Determine authenticity with modern such clothing is inspired by vintage styles, you will no doubt enjoy going to buy a real piece of vintage clothing.  The experience is without doubt the best teacher.   But here is a brief list of entry. Details that may indicate that an item of clothing has more than 40 years are metal zippers, closures of adjustment partly dressed text vintage, all blue Union labels, seams pinked and bias hem tape. Most clothing will not have a label "Made in China". The most common country of origin label is able to see in pre 1980 vintage clothing is Hong Kong, Italy, France or United States.

10. THE ISSUE OF CLEANING

No matter how much love his latest vintage find, if it is going to be a nuisance to clean and may not want to add to his collection. Ask how the seller/distributor or if the piece of vintage clothing is interested in buying can be clean.   Some vintage garments requires special treatment by a relative of dry cleaning with care of vintage clothing.  There may be no one available in your area, or it may be cost prohibitive for you.  It is better before investing.




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