Deadstock

BNWT or NWT I see on vintage items with tags, but they're not strictly new or brand new, so would you ever use that yourselves on vintage or keep to NOS or Deadstock?

Sarah
 
I use New With Tags (NWT) when they still have the hang tag on them and are brand new.

I've never used Deadstock. Evidently I didn't know what it was! I seriously thought it was a woodstock, grateful dead thing.

I'm in my 30's so I'm not up on all the abbreviations and slang.

This may sound weird but I try to use terminology I know what it is!

My thinking (and again I could be wrong) is that if I don't know what it is, how many of my potential customers won't know what it is??
 
Took me ages to work out what BNWT and NWT and NOS and think there's another one, can't remember. I agree just describe what it is. So, NWT, do you mean it's a new garment i.e not vintage but deadstock is? I'm in my 40s so I've got a decade more of lost brain cells on you and new fashion terminology way over my head. I'm Uk and I'd never heard of Steampunk so had to google that! Oh, I like your meaning of Deadstock, does sound a bit heavy metal...

Sarah

ps I'd better go check what description I've put on a little 'deadstock' dress I have listed on Etsy.....
 
A vintage garment can be "new with tags" in my opinion. I guess I think of new with tags as a garment that has never been worn and still has the original store/retail/inventory tags on it. I guess New Old Stock is the same thing. Except I had to ask what it was.
 
So, what's the difference with Deadstock? I've described my dress as deadstock, thinking it vintage that's never been worn with it's labels.... and what's your definition of Steampunk? Googling it seems like Victorian clothes with utopian futuristic twist ??

Sarah
 
NWT, NOS and Deadstock can all be used for the same things.

Steampunk, EMO, and there's another one I can't figure out.

KISS. Keep it simple stupid. I try to just keep it simple! The easier it is for a buyer to understand, the easier it is to sell it!

Vicki
 
for vintage items, it's nowt (new/old with tags). nwt is used for new items. or you could just use nos, although nos doesn't necessarily mean it still has the original hangtags, but does mean the same as deadstock.

people who collect vintage generally know what these abbreviations mean, although it's a good idea to spell them out in the description for those who don't.
 
I agree with Joan. I use NOS in the title, and then specify that it's New Old Stock in the description, and also specify whether it still has tags or not.

When I search on eBay, I use "-new, -NWT" to eliminate some of the miscategorized carp that litters the vintage categories. So I most likely wouldn't see your NWT real vintage item.
 
Between inconsistencies in sellers and the varying degrees of knowledge amongst buyers, things are increasingly more complex.

Thanks for your input. I'll modify the way I list NOS in the future!

Vicki
 
Marty, I have a bunch of wild & crazy 70's bellbottoms, too! Suede, fake suede, nautical look, faux denim.... many with simply humungous bells! Many with matching vests, too. And most of them small sizes, too... Maybe we raided the same estate??? LOL!

Do you plan on listing yours? I was thinking of putting the wildest ones up for Halloween.
 
I fidn the terminology humuorous and a bit weird to be frank..

Dead stock in UK, in the fashion scene, means, or did when I was flying in it...that the stock wasn't selling and so would be marked down. The term deadstock is so negative, which is why l've never used it in listing, but also perhap's why they dont sell, cos I dont use the 'right' words...sigh!!

Stock left over from a shop, is termed, Virgin vintage (if vintage) or SALE stock if new..
l am perplexed...
 
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