subject: Discover Vintage Clothing Online. [print this page] When it comes to finding vintage clothing it can often be a difficult task if there arent any specialist vintage stores near to you. Charity clothing shops can often have a hidden gem but you arent guaranteed to find anything. The internet now offers a wide range of websites which specialise in vintage clothing this means that you can shop to your hearts content for vintage clothing without having to leave your own home. You can shop on a wide range of different websites, some vintage stores will even have their own website so if you cant visit a store you love you can look on their website and purchase something which is available in their store.
Vintage clothing isnt easy to find, clothing is only classed as vintage if it was created from the 1920s to 1960s though clothes from up to the 1990s is often classed as vintage clothing. Clothes which were made before 1920 are antique clothes. Most vintage clothing you find will have been previously worn though of course you may find the odd piece that has never been worn though this is not likely to happen. You will find that vintage clothing can crop up almost anywhere such as car boot sales, antique markets, and even on auction sites, not everyone will know that an item of clothing is vintage and so you could easily pick yourself up a fantastic vintage piece at a bargain price.
You may find that family members or family friends have kept some of the clothing they enjoyed in their youth and if you are of similar sizes this can be a great benefit to you as you could pick up some great vintage finds for nothing or at least very little. You could find that your parents even have vintage shoes especially if their shoe size hasnt changed because a lot of people wont throw out their shoes if they still fit and this means you could find some originals that you wouldnt expect to find.
Now you may find many reproduction pieces which are based on the styling of a bygone era, these pieces are of a vintage style and will be used using modern fabrics but with the shapes and cuts of many vintage pieces. You will find that 50s swing dresses are very much in fashion at the moment and there are companies which design clothing which is purely in a vintage style rather than a modern take on the swing dress style.
When you are shopping online you can look at all your different favourite vintage stores to see what they currently have available, shopping online gives you the opportunity to look at them all at once, rather than meaning you have to spend a lot of time travelling between each store. If you find something you like in one store you can carry on looking and because you can do it so quickly the chances are that you wont miss out on the piece you like if you dont find a piece that you like even more.
Designer vintage pieces are very popular but can be difficult to get hold of, these are very popular because for some individual designers they are some of the pieces they made at the beginning of their design career or they are pieces which represent the designers style from that era. The earlier a piece of clothing the more expensive it becomes due to the fact that there are fewer and fewer pieces especially from a designers collection.
The internet is a great asset when you are looking for vintage clothing and will help you to find pieces you wouldnt find before.
