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Dressed: The History of Fashion

Fashion History Now #51: How to Shop for Vintage

Dressed: The History of Fashion

Dressed Media

History, Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty, Arts

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

By popular demand, we bring you our tips and tricks for shopping for vintage clothing. We discuss natural vs. synthetic fibers, how to date garments based on zippers, labels and provide some online resources to help you identify and date the vintage in your closet. LINKS: FIT Fashion History Timeline Vintage Fashion Guild Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Dress, the history of fashion, is a production of Dressed Media.

0:24.0

With over 8 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.

0:28.0

Our day, we all get dressed.

0:30.0

Welcome to Dressed, the history of fashion.

0:33.0

A podcast where we explore the who-what-win of why we wear.

0:37.0

We are fashion historians and your host, Cassidy Zachary.

0:41.0

And April Callahan.

0:43.0

Dress listeners, today's episode is brought to you by, well, you.

0:49.0

Yes, we mentioned it.

0:52.0

I can't remember a couple episodes ago about vintage shopping.

0:56.0

And we received so many messages from you saying,

0:58.0

can you please do an episode about how to shop for vintage?

1:01.0

So this is obviously something you all are very interested in.

1:04.0

And we have a little bit of experience in April.

1:08.0

Absolutely.

1:09.0

I mean, I think I'm now at this point, I probably wear vintage 90% of the time.

1:14.0

If maybe 85% of the time, but by far and away,

1:18.0

the larger herponderance of the time, I'm wearing vintage.

1:22.0

But Cass, I thought that it could be kind of interesting for us

1:25.0

to just start this discussion with sharing some of our earliest memories

1:30.0

of shopping vintage or how we developed our relationship with vintage.

1:35.0

Do you want to go first or you want me to go first?

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