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Your First Piece

Discussion in 'PUBLIC Vintage Chatter - Anything and everything' started by Linn, Jun 16, 2009.

  1. Linn

    Linn Super Moderator Staff Member VFG Past President

    I was putting some things away recently and came across the first "vintage" piece of clothing that I "knowingly" purchased. I had lots of vintage jewelry and several handbags at the time but had not become "a collector". I bought this '50's apron somewhere on the C. Coast of California, near Pismo Beach. I was there for my nephew's wedding. Here's a picture:
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    Show yours!

    Linn
     
  2. APrizeEveryTime

    APrizeEveryTime VFG Special Friend

    *Great* idea for a thread, Linn. I've still got mine, a rust-colored suede jacket bought at a thrift when I was 17. But I won't have time to shoot it until I've accomplished whatever I can get done in time for the red, white and blue parade. I'll try to post it here by EOD Thursday.

    Absolutely adorable apron. I hope some others might still have their hands on their first vintage purchase. I'd love to see them!
     
  3. Linn

    Linn Super Moderator Staff Member VFG Past President

    Love to see it, MC - and everyone else's first piece - purchased as "vintage".

    Linn
     
  4. gigi

    gigi Registered Guest

    I will get pictures of my dress and upload them to share too.
     
  5. crinolinegirl

    crinolinegirl Alumni

    These two items were the first ever pieces I knowingly ever bought as vintage and that kick started everything off that I have today!

    Both were bought ages ago from the same antique shop on Notre Dame street in Montreal (which is no long there as I found out two summers ago!).

    A late 1870's- early 1880's corset cover which cost me $11 ($1 of my money and $10 of my mother's):
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    and an Edwardian bodice which cost me $75 ($5.00 of my money and $70 of my mother's!!!):
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    I no longer have these two items but I remember them with fondness! Thanks for your generosity mum!!:wub:

    Lei
     
  6. pinky-a-gogo

    pinky-a-gogo VFG Member VFG Past President

    My first piece of vintage I purchased was in high school--one of those wool Mexican tourist jackets. I started collecting them over the years...I dont have any pictures taken of them though...

    One of the first dresses I purchased was also in high school and I did sell it on ebay about 6 years ago.
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  7. suelangley

    suelangley Alumni

    I first fell in love with vintage when I was about 8 and looking for something for Show & Tell in grandmas attic. In one of her trunks I found a long, red plaid wool gown lined with brown shiny stuff. I wondered why it was long, since it didn't look like a party dress, so I took it downstairs to ask grandma. She told me that her aunt Maggie Leddy had worn that very gown when she'd gone to the train station to see Lincoln's funeral train go through Syracuse. She explained that women's dresses were long then. I was awed, I'd touched history! Sue
     
  8. Midge

    Midge Super Moderator Staff Member

    When I was 17, mom and I went to London together, and walking down Kings Road we couldn't pass by Steinberg & Tolkien - and there she bought me this, because she liked it so much:

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    We had already been to antique shops on trips to the US and had sort of "got into it", and having always loved fashion and glamourous evening wear - I guess this was all it took!

    The first piece I bought myself was two years later, while I was on a language course in England - at a nice little vintage clothes shop:

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    Karin
     
  9. missproper

    missproper Alumni

    When I was 15 I bought my first piece of vintage - a green & yellow 1960's bridesmaid dress, and I LOVED it!
    It was going to be my spring prom dress, except that my stepmom found it in my closet and forced me to throw it away!! :mad:
     
  10. APrizeEveryTime

    APrizeEveryTime VFG Special Friend

    Wow. Don't mean to be sexist, but that's the stuff of wicked stepmother lore. Unbelievable!
     
  11. missproper

    missproper Alumni

    Yah, it was pretty bad. I still shake my head at that incident.
     
  12. fuzzylizzie

    fuzzylizzie Alumni

    I bought my first vintage piece in 1970. I was 15 years old and went with a friend and her mother to an estate sale. In a bedroom of this modest farmhouse, we found several boxes containing the most wonderful 1920s handbags. I bought one for the grand total of 25 cents! Please do not ask me how many times I've kicked myself over the others. I still have that bag, by the way. If I can remember, I'll post a photo later.
     
  13. glamoursurf

    glamoursurf Alumni

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    This is a picture of all the Flanders sisters. Jody is the tallest, second from the right, and I'm next to her, second on the left. Mom started us thrifting early in life. My first 'vintage' purchase that I remember is a calf length fur coat. Both my high school girlfriend and I bought one as the winters were wicked cold in Mass.
     
  14. fuzzylizzie

    fuzzylizzie Alumni

    Priceless!!
     
  15. joules

    joules VFG Member

    I love this thread!
    Hearing about a dress worn for viewing the Lincoln funeral train, seeing the photos of the early things that got us hooked.
    "Getting an early start in the fine art of attending rummage sales"!!

    Linn, mine is an apron too. I'll have to take a normal picture of it. This was for the flickr group, "A Picture Then, A Picture Now". In the photo I'm holding, I'm on the right, in my beloved blue paisley apron, thrifted:
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  16. avamac

    avamac Alumni

    Wow..it's such an age ago...1959 or 60...that I'm not sure. Distinctly remember my beatnik street uniform of Lee Stretch Rider jeans, black sweater, boots, and those 1920s skintight little unlined leather jackets, waist length with buckles on the sides. I had the jackets in multiples--pigskins and chamois suedes.

    And a large purple velvet Edwardian hat with ostrich feather trim.

    Stuff was available then for...literally...nickels and dimes, in junk stores and rummage sales. BUT the most I had to spend was usually 50 cents, and that involved skipping meals.
     
  17. Coutureallure

    Coutureallure Alumni

    OMG!!!!! How long have you been waiting to pull that newspaper clipping out? And when did you get so short?

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  18. dorotheascloset

    dorotheascloset Registered Guest

    This is awesome!!! No WAY do I have a pic of my first piece, and still have it so could snap it, a 60s "Safari" label faux leopard, same as Jennifer Hudson wore in "Dream Girls". Its been repaired about 10x! I bought it in the late 80s.

    I got started really with lingerie, and collected a crap load of vintage slips. Regardless of size, I just grabbed colors & styles and the ones I wore were worn as dresses with fishnets and boots and little cardis. When Ava was born & my ex lost his job, I started selling them on eBay, which started my whole career! Here's me in a slip, photo by my sis....this ended up on a CD cover of a friend of mine's rockabilly band in Australia (Charlie Greaser)

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    Ang
     
  19. glamoursurf

    glamoursurf Alumni

    lol Jody. I have that here by my computer. Look at it every now and agian, and I agree, jeez when did you get so tall? I've always been short!

    Ang, that hair, those eyebrows!!!
     
  20. Coutureallure

    Coutureallure Alumni

    FYI, everyone. Pam and I are now the same height. And I no longer wear white knee socks with plaid shorts. Can't believe I ever did!
     

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