Vintage Fashion Tips

Ugly Sweater Holiday Parties

Winter Vintage Party Outerwear

Holiday Party Season: This season don’t miss out on hosting or sponsoring a few winter parties through your vintage shop. Each year the ugly sweater and funky winter outerwear parties have been popping up all over the place. Not just at fun bars and private parties but at workplace functions, fraternity parties and more.

Don’t be left in the cold!

How to take advantage of Holiday Sales by Sponsoring Parties!

Send out an email, put up a sign in your shop and tell your employees to get the word out to all of your customers that your SHOP is the place to go get outfitted for these parties. Don’t be afraid to offer discount codes to group events or specific parties. To do this all you have to do inform party hosts to mention your shop and discount in their party invites or digital Evite’s. It is that simple!

With Retail Mark-ups being some of the highest in the industry it is easy to improve your bottom line this holiday season!

 

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Men’s Vintage Clothing Merchandising Tips

Merchandising vintage clothing can get a little tricky if you want to maximize the your return on your investment.  Most women who work in a vintage clothing store know how to merchandise a mannequin with women’s clothing but miss a lot of opportunities when they start dressing the men. It is important for product buyers and merchandisers to understand how different items can be grouped together, and displayed.

The following are different groupings to assist buyers and merchandisers

Product mixes :

TOPS  Army Shirts Banlons Mens Disco Shirts Mens Retro Shirts Boy Scout Shirts Sport Shirts T-Shirts Guyaberas Hawaiian Shirts Tuxedo Shirts Western Shirts Flannel Shirts Three Button Polos Hippie Shirts

OUTERWEAR  Light 80s  Jackets Military Jackets Field Jackets Track Jackets Members Only/80’s Vintage Suit Coat Tuxedo Jacket Work Jacket Leisure Suit Jacket Leather Jackets Denim Jackets Trench Coats Sweatshirts Bajas /Ethnic Wear Men’s Sweaters Insulated Jean Jackets

PANTS  MenPoly Pants Cords Mens Jeans – 70s Levi 501, 517 Boot cut Lee, Levi, Wrangler Denim 70s Tuxedo Pants Work Pants Checkered Poly Pants Western Poly Pants

Market Publique Lookbook – Vintage Fashion w/ a Modern Spin

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Market Publique Lookbook Gives Vintage Fashion a Modern Spin (Photos)

We like to feature some of our favorite websites, photographers, bloggers and others that are as crazy about vintage as we are. When it comes to Vintage Fashion, style and photography we think that Market Publique is doing a great job leading the pack. Thier online website features a great photography collection of carefully put together vintage outfits in their online lookbook. Take a look at these, they are not just hard to fing rare vintage items, but your every day cool vintage fashion.

Founded by Pamela Castillo, Market Publique brings together a community of buyers and sellers to champion vintage fashion. When it comes to shopping online, photographs mean everything and they do it better than well; their look books breath life–and style–into older clothing, giving them a modern spin

Read more over at Market Publique’s blog. http://blog.marketpublique.com/
Check out their great look books at http://welcome.marketpublique.com/lookbooks/

 

Vintage Jean Shorts

Vintage High Waisted Denim Jean Shorts have been rather common among some of the more hipster crowds over the past few seasons. As with everything in the fashion conundrum, these same shorts are starting to make big comeback among some of the more trendy shoppers.

Some of us feel that it is about time, the low-cut look for jeans on women has pretty much run it’s course, and rightfully so. This year everyone from department stores to pseudo cool hipster shops like Urban Outfitters will be carrying a collection of different versions of these high waisted denim shorts for their female clientele. Many of the brand designers for these shorts have gone to the racks of vintage clothing stores for inspiration on how to make the perfect pair. The perfect pair to them is a design that will look and feel exactly like an old pair of vintage jeans.

The thing to remember is that you do not have to run to your local department store to purchase a great pair of vintage jean shorts, all that you have to do is visit your closet or local vintage store. Find a pair of vintage jeans that looks good on you,  then take them home and cut them to fit. It is that easy.

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