vintageresearch

Hi there! I hope I am writing in the right forum thread, I am very new to this and not used to using forums, so forgive me! I am a student at Norwich University of the Arts in England and I am conducting research for my project on the vintage market, as I have always been very interested in...

Hi there everyone, My name is Jodie Conway, and I am an MA History student at Queen Mary University of London. I am currently working on my dissertation, which is about the commercialisation of vintage clothing in New York . Specifically, I am researching how second hand clothing transformed...

Hello! I'm writing a book about the federal excise (luxury!) tax that was placed on handbags and other items in the U.S. from 1944-1965. I'd like to get interviews--either by phone or email--with people who have knowledge of this topic. I am looking for the following: those who remember paying...

My latest curiosity is dating & finding vintage bandanas. (I found an interesting--to me--one at an estate sale, but I SWEAR I can not find a good resource for dating them or comparing designs. (The one book I could find, my state library system doesn't carry, something out of Japan.) SO...here...

Hi there I'm conducting a survey around what people interested in vintage would want to read in a magazine about vintage to try and find out what those interested in vintage would be interested in reading. This is for a university project and not intended as spam and would really appreciate it...

Hi all, I'm a freelance journalist writing about the incredible knitwear on show in Call the Midwife for the January issue of Let's Knit magazine. I'd love to speak to anyone with specialist knowledge of the hand knits featured in the show, or more broadly of the yarns of the late 1950s and...

It has crossed my mind on more than one occasion... Did Lillian Schuman have any larger role/influence in Lilli Ann aside from being the namesake of her husband's company? Or was she more of a muse? Maybe that's not answerable. Chris