So What's Vintage ?

well with wine it's a substitute word for "made in the year"...as in "this merlot is vintage 1990" = "this merlot was made with grapes picked in 1990"

(it was probably bottled some time after that)

With vintage clothes, jewelry, accessories and footwear, and headwear...vintage is at least 20 years old...See the difference?
Vintage, when applied to clothing etc, isn't a word that means "a year" or even "circa"...it means at least x number of years old, relative to the current year.


If you bought something new in 2004, it's not vintage in 2009. It's old, or used, or out of style. It may be perfectly wonderful...
but it isn't vintage...not yet! There are even some more hard-line purists that define vintage clothes as those that are older than 1970.

With the current and likely unending rise in popularity of "vintage" and "used" and "clothing swaps and exchanges", the right words need to be used for accuracy.

To read more about vintage clothes and the whole big wide world of vintage...go here...it's an amazing resource !

So, here in Tacoma, the best Vintage Clothing stores are VANITY, and GLENNA'S...
Orange is great, as is Pure, as are all the others...but for sheer abundance of glamor and choice of decades, those 2 stores, Vanity and Glenna's... really rock the older, harder to find, vintage!

Any day of the week you can walk into Vanity on 6th Ave, or Glenna's on Broadway, and get blown away by 50s leopard jackets, or 60s pillbox hats, or 40s rayon crepe dresses, or 30s bias cut satin gowns...


Me, funkoma, like the other vintage stores in Tacoma, do have glammy stuff! We be cool....
I think we specialize in the more everyday, more accessible daily wear...
Also, our prices are more affordable...because what we sell is still more easily found out there.


The reason a 50s leopard, a 60s pillbox, a 40s rayon, a 30s bias...is quite a bit of $$ is the rarity (and condition)...

These are just the facts of life about our industry...
Love your exchange store...this for that...but know the difference between vintage, and used clothes.
And...the most rare of all?
It's a large or plus-size...
Because people used to be smaller back in the day...
that's all, therefore the larger sizes are very rare...and rarity figures into availability and price.

Well, someone thinks I'm mean...

about beer and hot dogs. Not true. naaah. Drink your beer, and eat your hot dogs. I am allergic to beer, I am a vegetarian. So, a certain bar in Tacoma, well, I visited once, but I won't go back, although Mark was there just last week.....

If you read my red hot and cool cocktails post, I was talking about the weather. I was talking about my camping trip. I hate corporations!!!!! Geez, if you don't know that about me, then, clearly you know nothing about me!

And in Tacoma, any one can own a bar and make money selling booze. I am making no money...I'm ok with that because I'm ready for a change when my lease is up......Tacomans love to drink! 1/2 my friends are AA tho...
But back to making money in Tacoma selling booze. Yes, folks are making a lot of money. Hurrah for them. Really.

Do you remember the tshirt that said something like this:"Tacoma, 45000 alcoholics can't be wrong"

So calm down. My dead friend Steve Craig used to call everyone an Idiot! Didn't hurt my feelings or anyone else's that I every heard tell.

Get anywhere near me and I'll climb right up on the anti-corporate soapbox.
geez.
And you know what else I find so interesting...that if I am such a meanie, why do I have friends and folks stop in to visit me all day long...
If you know me, I rail against the big guys beating up on the little guys...I love everyone, and wish everyone the best of luck. Always.
I hope that those folks with money will get taste, and those with taste will get money.
I hope that those hard cold uncaring corporate jackasses at the top of the heap will someday get some human emotions.....and learn to be nice.

Sorry gotta go. Another friend dropped in ...just to chat!!