Confessions of a (sorta) vintageholic
I first heard of vintage clothing thanks to stuffing my face with celeb fashion news (news? hmmm) when I was bored. But those are Hollywood celebs, I wouldn't know where to find any vintage clothing here in Malaysia then.
But thanks to Facebook (no, Zuckerberg didn't pay me to say this), I found out about vintage clothing in Malaysia. These items are sold via blog shops. I came across a little blog shop via Facebook and bought a dress to check out what it's like.
I didn't really like it as it smells a bit even after washing. And so I thought, that's it. Malaysian vintage clothing sucks, plus the size was wrong. It made me look frumpy.
Then a colleague of mine who was checking out these sites came across another Malaysian blog shop and got me a dress. It turned out to be really nice so I checked the blog out myself the next time around.
And the rest, as the cliche goes - is history. I've a lot of vintage dresses and several vintage tops now and no place to store them. My wardrobe is bursting, and I'm still buying those dresses!
As for vintage tops, so far I couldn't find any that isn't too short or too dowdy or with great colour. One thing about the vintage blog shops here, what you see is sometimes not what you get. And sometimes they may not even mention that there may be defects on the items sold, or the actual condition they're in.
So you have to be lucky to get the piece as it is without any alterations (which most of the time you have to get it done yourself), or defects on the zipper or stains on the dress. So far I've been pretty lucky, although I admit I have brought almost 50 dresses for alterations.
What I hope these blog shops would do is to follow the example of this site based in the US when it comes to description and how they present the clothes. Plus, most of their stuff is nice, not just a bunch of clothes randomly put together and then hope people will buy it and be 100% happy afterward. Some of the clothes I have a feeling were altered as well. A bit on the short side innit (which is great).
That said, I will still continue buying vintage clothing from local blog shops. But if I have the money and the confidence of buying online from a foreign website, then they might lose their business.
But thanks to Facebook (no, Zuckerberg didn't pay me to say this), I found out about vintage clothing in Malaysia. These items are sold via blog shops. I came across a little blog shop via Facebook and bought a dress to check out what it's like.
I didn't really like it as it smells a bit even after washing. And so I thought, that's it. Malaysian vintage clothing sucks, plus the size was wrong. It made me look frumpy.
Then a colleague of mine who was checking out these sites came across another Malaysian blog shop and got me a dress. It turned out to be really nice so I checked the blog out myself the next time around.
And the rest, as the cliche goes - is history. I've a lot of vintage dresses and several vintage tops now and no place to store them. My wardrobe is bursting, and I'm still buying those dresses!
As for vintage tops, so far I couldn't find any that isn't too short or too dowdy or with great colour. One thing about the vintage blog shops here, what you see is sometimes not what you get. And sometimes they may not even mention that there may be defects on the items sold, or the actual condition they're in.
So you have to be lucky to get the piece as it is without any alterations (which most of the time you have to get it done yourself), or defects on the zipper or stains on the dress. So far I've been pretty lucky, although I admit I have brought almost 50 dresses for alterations.
What I hope these blog shops would do is to follow the example of this site based in the US when it comes to description and how they present the clothes. Plus, most of their stuff is nice, not just a bunch of clothes randomly put together and then hope people will buy it and be 100% happy afterward. Some of the clothes I have a feeling were altered as well. A bit on the short side innit (which is great).
That said, I will still continue buying vintage clothing from local blog shops. But if I have the money and the confidence of buying online from a foreign website, then they might lose their business.
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