Vintage as I see it

My Favorite Vintage Clothing Stores and Resources 

Bring It Back! Vintage Online Store

Offering high quality vintage clothing. Personally hand picked for quality, personality and historical significance. At Bring It Back Vintage you will find a variety of eras from the 1930's to the 1980's (sometimes sooner sometimes later)men and womens fashions.

1930s Hair and Makeup

With the close of the 1920s came the crash of the stock market (October 1929) and with that came an expedited change in attitude about hair and makeup. Gone were the days of the rebellious flapper, replaced...

eRL: The eVintage Resource Library at The eVintage Society

A Vintage Fashion Web Directory that offers links to all things vintage & retro including vintage by decade, designers & labels, care & cons

Bring It Back! Vintage Resource Page

A growing list of links to (what I consider) insightful reference pages including information about vintage designers, decades of fashion and vintage fashion labels etc...

Research Vintage Clothing, Dating, Vintage Clothing Care, Fabric Identification & Resources. A Comprehensive Link Portal To All Things Vintage & Fashion History!

This lens by redponyenterprises is an excellent resource for researching vintage clothing. It provides an astronomical amount of information, links and pictures.

thrift shopper

The best directory ever for finding a thrift store near you!

eBetty DIY archive at The eVintage Society

eBetty DIY provides alternatives on how to rework vintage pieces that are not useable as is. eBettly has great ideas and is just fun to read and look at the before and after pictures.

Vintage or Bust archive at The eVintage Society

VINTAGE OR BUST! Monthly theme blog providing information and shopping opportunities in a variety of vintage categories.

How to Find your Plus Size Vintage Style

This is a great lens about finding your Plus vintage Style!

How to Buy Plus Size Vintage

If all vintage clothing really is that small, I'd have no clothing to sell! To say nothing of my OWN vintage wardrobe! This first guide is how to buy Plus Sized Vintage...

Great Resource for Finger Waving 

The ultra feminine hairstyle of the 20s and 30s

The Lovely Art Of Fingerwaving

What is a finger wave you ask? Well, I will tell you, gather around boys and girls. Once upon a time when I attended "beauty school" as the only foreseeable way to graduate from high school in 1981, I was...

Vintage Fashion Designer Links 

History Of Fashion Designers

Exhaustive list of Designers from A to Z. Outstanding resource and highly recommended.

Ode to Pauline Trigere

Lens created by this Lensmaster. It is a work in progress and provides a great deal of information and links concerning all things Trigere.

Betsey Johnson in Living Color

Another Lens by me that includes fun history and links concerning Betsey Johnson, her ties to The Velvet Underground and Andy Warhol and much more!

Claire McCardell American Look Fashion Designer

Suidoo Lens providing information about Claire McCardell, the fashion designer known for the "American Look" Amecica's answer to Dior's "New Look".

Vintage Fashion Guild - Label Resource

Excellent resource for identifying designer labels and dating some. The Vintage Fashion Guild (VFG) is an international collective with members in the USA, UK and Canada. Whether you become a member or just explore their website, it is an excellent educational resource!

The Artistry of Adrian

Adrian Adolph Greenberg, (March 3, 1903 - September 13, 1959), known mostly as Adrian, was a Hollywood costume designer whose most famous costumes were for The Wizard of Oz and other Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films of the 1930s and 1940s. During his career, he designed costumes for over 250 film

Emma Domb

EMMA DOMB Emma Domb was a California dressmaking company that was active from 1939 through the 70s. Domb Manufacturing Company was owned by Emma Domb and Lorraine Domb Steinberg. They specialized in wedding, party and prom dresses, and were also known for fancy date ensembles. They were headquartere

Irene Lentz

Born in Baker, Montana, Lentz started out as an actress under her birth name, appearing in secondary roles in silent films beginning with Keystone Studios in 1921. She was directed in her first film by F. Richard Jones and the two eventually began a relationship that led to a marriage that lasted un

Bonnie Cashin

Chic is Where You Find It'Wouldn't it be nice if I could get a tweed by
spinning together a bird's nest and a
spider's web?'
-Bonnie Cashin, 1972Bonnie Cashin (1908-2000) was one of the foremost American fashion designers in the second half of the twentieth century. At the vanguard of her field for

Mr Blackwell

Richard Blackwell (born August 29, 1922, Brooklyn, New York as Richard Sylvan Seltzer) is a fashion critic, journalist, television personality, artist, former child actor and former fashion designer, known internationally as Mr. Blackwell. He is the creator of the Ten Worst Dressed Women list, an an

Ceil Chapman

CEIL CHAPMAN Ceil Chapman's son Peter, described his mother's design skills as being akin to engineering and indeed, if one studies her skilful draping, tucking and folding of fabric it is clear as to what he meant. Born in Staten Island (where the family maintained a home throug

Manuel Pertegaz

At just 12 years of age, Pertegaz discovered his love of dressing women and started practicing on the women and friends of his family. 12 years later he had already opened his first Fashion House in Barcelona which he named after himself. He is now 85 years old, just reaching retirement and receivin

Edith Head The Most Famous Costume Designer in Hollywood

For many people, Edith Head and film costume design are synonymous. Other designers may have been more flamboyantly creative, or more consistently original, but no one did more to earn this art form popular recognition. Her guiding principle was that costume should support, rather than compete with,

The "New Look" of Christian Dior

Dior launched his couture house on 12 February 1947 and became an overnight sensation. His voluptuous collection was the antithesis of masculine wartime fashions. Instead, the designs featured sloping shoulders, a full bust and a cinched-in waist above full, long skirts. It was christened on the spo

Helen Rose

1904-1985 Helen Rose was born in Chicago on 2nd February 1904. She studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In 1929 she moved to Los Angeles, California. Her first professional job in designing was for Fanchon and Marco's "Ice Follies". This duo supervised costumes for musical

Anne Fogarty

If you adore her, you must adorn her. There lies the secret of a happy marriage
Anne Fogarty from Wife Dressing

Anne Whitney Fogarty designed the American look, creating clothes that were youthful, simple and stylish. Although Fogarty studied drama at