today I'm wearing:
denim jacket: vintage DKNY
baby blue button up: gift from my mother, anne taylor
black spandex pants: thrifted years ago
scarf turned into a bow: vintage, thrifted
brown chunky sandals: thrifted (originally from walmart)
teeny purse: vintage (only $1.50! YES!)
My dog Macy kept running into the frame so I picked her up and made her take pictures with me. She then left me alone :P
chunkyyy
I've been wanting to wear this scarf like this for a while now and finally had an outfit that it went with, I'm pretty excited.
So something that has been on my mind for a while now is the great vintage debate. A while ago I received an anonymous comment from someone on my tumblr that was something like this:
"how do you/we REALLY know what you are buying is vintage? I bet it is all from walmart and you are just lying! LOLOL vintage is NOT CHEAP"
I basically replied by reminding them that there is this great little invention called "clothing tags" which inform a shopper who made the item. It's pretty obvious the difference between a modern label from a big company and a vintage tag. Not to mention the way clothes look is a pretty good sign in most cases. Also, if you say vintage is not cheap, then you must live only around antique/vintage shops and not thriftier places because there is plenty of cheap vintage clothing.
Regardless, I really do not care if something I wear is exclusively vintage or not. Now, that's not to say that I would ever list something as "vintage" if I did not have plenty of reason to believe (almost always meaning the tag is vintage or it was owned by someone in my family decades ago) but if there was something at walmart that I really liked, I would just buy it and say I purchased it there. If it matches my style, then why not? For instance, these shoes that I'm wearing are tagged "no boundaries". I'm pretty certain that is one of walmart's apparel brands. I'm not going to go off tagging them as vintage just because I found them at a thrift store - but I am not going to turn them down just because they are from walmart and not 30 years old.
This brings me to something that irks me lately: when people tag items that they've bought on a sale rack firsthand as "thrifted". THIS IS NOT THRIFTING. Yes, it is very "thrifty" of you to purchase these items, but generally thrifting refers to buying secondhand items. It's quite often that I'll see a girl wearing something that I KNOW just came out in Urban Outfitters sale section tagged as "thrifted". I'm not sure if this phenomenon has started because people don't realize what thrifting means or if it is because they think it will seem "cooler" if it was purchased at a thrift shop. Now, this obviously doesn't really affect me in any way, so I'm not going to go screaming at people and calling them out when it happens because I'm sure there are times when someone has actually thrifted something from a salvation army type store while urban outfitters was still selling it, but I know some repeat offenders who do this multiple times and I just don't see the point.
I don't think everyone needs to go off showing their receipts and tags and what not for all of their purchases; I just think everyone should be honest about what you wear because if you wear it well then who cares whether it's from Chanel or Goodwill or Walmart or the dumpster behind your house. If you really don't want to let people know where you get things, then I'd say it's probably better to just not say anything than to sway people to believe it was from somewhere else.
/end rant
xoxox,
rockie
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