Vintage and Retro Clothes

Vintage and retro clothing appeal to different people for different reasons.  There are people who like the fabrics used during a certain era and there are people who like the designs and cuts.  And some people just like showing off that their clothes are vintage from another era.  You can't help but feel cool wearing that retro stuff.

There's a resurgence of 1970s and 1980s fashions right now.  Fashion seems to come back every twenty to thirty years after it was first popular.   Seventies fashion has a wide range of looks.  The early seventies continued the extreme casual look of the late sixties.  Jeans, granny dresses, hot pants, and midi skirts dominated female fashion.  From the middle to late seventies, men wore the hippie look until disco took over.  The disco era was all about skin tight outfits and loud silk shirts.

During the eighties, the disco theme continued, but not everyone followed.  By the middle of the decade, preppy clothes were all the rage, like Polo shirts with collars turned up and docksider shoes without socks.  Taking a look at Miami Vice or some 80s music videos can give you a good idea what people wore back then. Dressing retro today isn't about copying the look exactly.  There are some people who do this and it looks like they're wearing a costume.  Making the most of seventies and eighties vintage clothes is incorporating them into the current fashion.  It's meant to accent your style, not stand on its own.

Fashion with an appreciation for vintage clothing doesn't have to be limited to those two decades.  There are some awesome old clothes out there from earlier decades.  There's a lot of interest in the 1940s as a fashion era among some people.  Due to the war, the United States went through a lot of changes.  It includes clothing fashions.  Clothing in the 1940s was much simpler than in the decade before, because of shortages of basic items.  Those who like more basic styles might like this era's clothes. It can be interesting to look at vintage clothes from a historical perspective, no matter what you think of them. Fashion and clothing tell a story about a different era.  We sometimes look back and smile, and sometimes we just shake our heads.