tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528684605027054522.post3871598359634107037..comments2024-02-28T19:46:30.336-08:00Comments on Serendipity Handmade: Guest Post: Thoughts on How to Be VintageSerendipity Handmade + Vintagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02299784281067703466noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528684605027054522.post-29157966735222954882011-11-05T19:14:18.620-07:002011-11-05T19:14:18.620-07:00Rob -- so glad you enjoyed the post! Jessica and ...Rob -- so glad you enjoyed the post! Jessica and I do have a lot in common.<br /><br />Becky -- love the "good enough for my grandma" quip. I may have to use that when someone asks me why I use vintage things instead of new, like my vintage cast iron skillet.<br /><br />Rosy -- thanks, looking forward to the pattern.<br /><br />Bijoux -- I completely agree with dressing to suit yourself (no pun intended) and that classic fashions never go out of style. Designs come around again and again, that's for sure I think that's why people may not notice that you are sewing from vintage. And hey, you're not necessarily eccentric -- you are just YOU!Serendipity Handmade + Vintagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02299784281067703466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528684605027054522.post-37403413935872348742011-11-03T20:51:53.479-07:002011-11-03T20:51:53.479-07:00Hmm a very thoughtful post. I suppose I'm a vi...Hmm a very thoughtful post. I suppose I'm a vintage vintage lover. I've been wearing vintage style clothes since the 70s, I'm nearly 59!!! (OMG :o )I started wearing 30s style clothes in the 70s. My wardrobe is based on designs from @1915-45. Why? Well originals could be found really cheaply in the 70s, and as I've never had much of a waist, dropped waists suited me.(20s style) Also designs of the 30s and 40s kept on reappearing through the 70s and 80s, and was easy to keep going, (when I wasn't emulating Grace or Cleopatra Jones.) Now I make a lot of what I wear, in fabrics that are easy to manage, and adjust vintage patterns to suit me (you'll never see me in puff sleeves.) It means my clothes have a longer life than fashion trends. It's simple, they suit me, and most people don't realise the vintage influence. It just comes across as my style.<br /><br />Now I understand the satisfaction of making your own, and cooking from scratch. But, and there is a big but. I am old enough to remember being in the last generation of children who were not bought up to be adults. We were bought up to be husbands or wives and indoctrinated with all the limitations and prejudices that involved. So here I am, practically a pensioner, a rotund roly, poly woman who is a mixture of English and African descent who wears vintage. Yep, probably eccentric. I can't help but notice the fans of vintage seem almost exclusively to be young and very slim women of European descent. But I hope you don't emulate how restrictive, limiting and *rap our lives were. I have always been so thankful for the Women's Movement in the 60s. The irony is without it, you wouldn't have the freedom to freely choose a vintage lifestyle for yourselves today, without ridicule. I hope you are as careful in what you avoid as in what you choose to create your vintage lives. Today being 'Vintage' is as valid a choice as being into rap or jazz, no problem. Back in the day, all you could choose to be was the same as everyone else, or fight to pretend you were. That's not a recipe for a happy life.Bijouxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03328794382506859774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528684605027054522.post-600518557071398672011-11-03T16:06:51.627-07:002011-11-03T16:06:51.627-07:00Thank you very much for your nice words, I'm t...Thank you very much for your nice words, I'm trying to find an email address for you to send to you my shrug pattern, but the links you have do not work, please send your email to me so I can share the pattern crochet.Sewingadictahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01083124271608615951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528684605027054522.post-12523792503050642562011-11-03T15:47:47.000-07:002011-11-03T15:47:47.000-07:00Jessica, I like your explanation. When I am asked ...Jessica, I like your explanation. When I am asked what I find so fascinating about using vintage patterns, baking from scratch from vintage cookbooks, sewing on either my 100 year old or 50+ year old sewing machine and wearing vintage clothing, I've been known to quip "If it was good enough for my [Grand]Mama then it's good enough for me."<br /><br />It is a state of mind and being.Beckyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01495309815825183088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3528684605027054522.post-55660104192093311302011-11-03T14:59:16.155-07:002011-11-03T14:59:16.155-07:00Hi Collette, I've really enjoyed my visit toda...Hi Collette, I've really enjoyed my visit today. I came referred by Jessica. It's no wonder that you two have found each other, it seems that you would have so much in common. Thanks Jessica for another beautifully written post.<br /><br />Hugs,<br />RobCreativSpirithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00681495601483898357noreply@blogger.com