I love how the phrase ‘vintage’ has replaced  ‘second hand’ in regards to clothing and decor,  and is now ever so trendy. Fact is, I was wearing vintage (along with many of my friends and fellow fashion design students) thirty years ago, well before it was acceptable and trendy as it is now. My friends and I would trawl the second hand clothes shops (and there were fewer then) like Oxfam for genuine 50’s clothes. Frocks, winklepickers etc.

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