CODE LIMITED Style Files: Wearing Vintage

When it comes to wearing vintage, there isn’t just one way to go about it,

You may have your own interpretations of what is right,

as well it should be, but how do you know what’s right for you?

There are some things you can do to create a look

that is uniquely your own and find your vintage groove.

First of all, you need to know what you are dressing for;

do you dress to suit your shape?

To hide your flaws and highlight your best features?

Or are you dressing to emulate a certain era/period?

Or are you choosing vintage solely because of its sustainable fashion perspective?

All of these will play a role in how you choose to dress,

either entirely or as part of a whole; but you need to identify

which of these aspects would be the most important for you.

Vintage, like some styles, can easily be a hit or miss;

it can easily become that retro mistake.

Wearing vintage doesn’t automatically make you look cool.

Nor is dressing in a head to toe fifties outfit would assure that you will look like an icon from Hollywood’s golden age. A retro mistake is just as bad as any other fashion mistake!

“But good vintage fashion is here to stay for a very good reason – it offers unique clothing of the kind of quality that only top end designers provide today.”

So what exactly is VINTAGE? Well it’s definitely not clothing made last 15 years ago, despite what all those 80’s and 90’s revivalists might think.

But it’s still a somewhat broad category, covering a whole lot of under 100 years old (100 and over is officially historic and deserves to be in a museum or hidden deep somewhere).

For many years ‘vintage’ was simply ’second hand’ and frowned upon by the fashion cognoscenti*, but vintage is now so popular that it has become a mini-industry in itself.

The real benefit of buying vintage is not the price, but the distinctive traits of every piece; the cut, and the fabrics. Vintage clothing was built to last. Limited budgets plus expensive manufacturing processes meant that good quality clothes were treasured.

Here are some pictures to inspire you .