Keyword results: Vintage
‘Howling Hearts' is the latest addition to the ever growing Vintage Lover Empire. Sure, online vintage stores are a dime a dozen, but then there are those that do it justice...
Rather than throwing pieces of clothing up on eBay all higgledy-piggledy, crushed and strewn on a coat hanger, the talented Jaharn Giles, brains and beauty behind Vintage Lover Online shows how it's done.
Perky perky sales shop staff really do suck the big one. I could do without the ones that turn their noses up at me, but even worse are the ones that get all up in ya grill with their prying questions: Where'd you get your shoes from? What you up to this weekend? Have you got the day off today? Where do you work? What size are you? Want to try it on? Ahh leave me alone.
A little while ago I found an old Italian bicycle for sale locally. It was a beautiful Olmo cafe racer with chrome lugs, Campagnolo gear, and gorgeous fenders for about $500. It was possibly the most beautiful bike I'd seen, there was no carbon fibre to be seen and I would have frolicked through the streets on it with the cheesiest of grins pretending I was laning it up in Amsterdam or weaving through the alleys of Turin.
At the top of my street is a gun shop, a children's party service and a church, which pretty much sums up my suburb's bizarre cultural diversity. I've lived in Prospect all my life, and while it's been many things, ‘cool' was never quite one of them.
But one day I woke up and almost overnight the very same Prospect was vaguely trendy.
Shopping for vintage is an up and down, round and round affair. Op-shops can be fusty and tend to cater for the morbidly obese. Paradoxically, those enterprising it-girls can be a little over zealous with their mark-ups. But there's a new kid in town. At Vintage Carousel, the highs are high and the lows are restricted to bending down for a good look at the shoes.
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