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What is Vintage?

Vintage can be anything from the 20s to 80s. Items

100 years and older are antique so one day soon those

20s vintage items are going to be antiques. Usually

vintage is set into decades, 20s flapper, art deco, art nouveau,

war years, 50s rockabilly, 60s retro atomic eames era,

70s disco, 80s punk rock and many more genres.

Vintage can be nostalgic and bring back fond memories of

a time past. Vintage can make you fall in love with an

era you never knew. Quality made items by designers

and craftsmen that all landed here from all over the world.

Some would learn their trade and open their own

companies. Everyday items had fantastic design and

were made with quality. Owners would walk the shop

floor and know every job, not like now where a

company has a CEO sitting in an office on the other

side of the world.

I'm a vintage and antique fashion junkie, anything from

the 1800s on up. I'm so happy that young people are

catching on too. vintage rhinestone brooches are on the Paris

runways. Vintage clothing is bigger than it has ever been and

can sometimes go for amazing amounts of money. That designer

hat by Schiaparelli sitting in your granny's hat box is worth

a lot of money. Take a look in her jewelry box, even the

costume rhinestone jewelry made by the right maker can

be worth more than her pearls.

These are the items that appeal to me, vintage hats, purses

compacts and jewelry. I'm on the hunt for them always.

Especially Jewelry! When I find brooches, necklaces,

clip-on earrings, dress clips filled with rhinestones,

cabochons, crystals, and art glass with lots of bling

my eyes light up. I enjoy them myself and enjoy spreading

the vintage in my shop.

Debra, Grand Vintage Finery

or you can visit her on twitter at @grandfinery

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