Monthly Archives: September 2011
Itchy, scratchy and most certainly not vintage
Today I took a little trip to Leeds Met student union to sample the vintage fair they had on. I went with quite low expectations: lots of synthetic 80s horrors, levi cut offs and oversized jumpers. This fair was actually so bad it surpassed the previous worst vintage fair I have been to by miles. The fair was basically a glorified car boot with barely any actual vintage garments. It was worrying that I felt a genuine sense of excitement when I found a single 40s blouse on a stall. Bar one stall that had quite a reasonable number of decent pieces this was the ONLY pre 60s garment I found. ONE GARMENT.
The only slight saving grace was “Curious Cleo”, here there were still a lot of 80s garments but also quite a few 50s dresses and a few 40s too. There was a particularly nice blue check dress that if it had been my size I would have snapped up. I asked the stall holder about this and she said that in general the students wouldn’t buy the 50s stuff and that there wasn’t much of a market for it at the student union fairs.
I suppose I should really learn from my mistakes and simply stop going to the fairs at student unions rather than writing disparaging (and probably wholly unhelpful) blogposts about how awful the fairs were, but the point is I don’t understand why they are so bad. And more importantly why do sellers feel that they can palm off such utter crap on students?
So, what conclusion have I come to from this fair. I will absolutely NOT be going to one of The Vintage Fairs events again ( I was sorely tempted to send my Mum to the one in Winchester to check it out, but I don’t feel like I can subject her to the torture of it). I feel so rubbish after today that I think I am going to need to treat myself to a trip to Harrogate at the weekend to remember what proper vintage is!
Apologies for an extreme lack of posting
I’M SORRY!!!
More interesting posts will follow again soon, but I have just moved back to Leeds to complete the final year of my degree (sob).
In the meantime. A few photos of vintage outfits of late and things I have been doing.
This is one of the dresses I was bought for my 21st. Original 1940s with the most wonderful zipped sleeves.