Why wear vintage clothing?

“Why not just go to the near­est chain cloth­ing store and buy imi­ta­tion vin­tage?” I hear you ask. Plenty of rea­sons! Here are the main ones -

• Eco Friendly
  Regard­less of whether you’re pas­sion­ate about sav­ing the envi­ron­ment or not; it’s impor­tant. The cloth­ing indus­try has an immense impact on the envi­ron­ment. In the aver­age Aus­tralian house­hold, the amount of water used in cre­at­ing the clothes bought is around the 150,000-litre mark. So, when you pur­chase vin­tage rather than retail, you’re not only buy­ing some­thing unique, you’re also help­ing out the environment.

• Orig­i­nal­ity
  Vin­tage pieces that you buy are unique, one-of-kind, orig­i­nal, rare, made-for-you, no one else will own them, etc, etc. Dif­fer­ing from the aver­age per­son is a good thing, and vin­tage cloth­ing helps you to accom­plish that.

• His­tory
  For me, the his­tory of a vin­tage gar­ment means a lot. When I buy a vin­tage piece, I like to imag­ine the his­tory of the gar­ment, and to try and wrap my head around the many places it has prob­a­bly been worn. Retail clothes, how­ever, have lit­tle his­tory – usu­ally includ­ing a sweat­shop in a third world country.

• Higher Qual­ity
  In the past, they had dif­fer­ent ways of sewing gar­ments used dif­fer­ent mate­ri­als. Gen­er­ally, the ways of sewing ensured that the clothes were longer last­ing and sturdy, and the fab­rics were of a higher qual­ity than today’s fab­rics are.

• Saves Money
  Cloth­ing store prices are steadily rais­ing to the point where buy­ing new is nearly always an expen­sive occa­sion. On the other hand, vin­tage clothes are often found at sec­ond hand stores for $2.00 a piece. Really, there isn’t much com­pe­ti­tion between vin­tage and retail prices, so I won’t go on.

• Invest­ment
  Vin­tage can be a great invest­ment for the future. Some vin­tage pieces are sold for thou­sands of dol­lars and auc­tions – if you come across a sig­nif­i­cant vin­tage gar­ment, in good con­di­tion, you might be able to earn quite an amount of money.

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