Top Tips for Vintage Shopping

It seems there are those girls who know how to shop for vintage, and those who don’t.
Top Tips for Vintage Shopping
A woman looks through vintage clothes at Film Biz Recycling, a shop that sells donated items from movie and theater sets, in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn, New York, on Oct. 30, 2014. Samira Bouaou/Epoch Times
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It seems there are those girls who know how to shop for vintage, and those who don’t—some end up with a musty sweater that looks like they found it in granny’s attic, while others cause jaws to drop as far to the ground as the hem of the one-of-a-kind sequinned Halston maxi dress they ‘just happened to find’ at ’this tiny place in the Village.’

Here are our top tips for vintage shopping to ensure you find the most covetable of vintage treasures.

In this October 8,1996 file photo models showcase two rare Dior dresses to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Christian Dior's revolutionary New Look. The dresses 'Soiree' and 'Diorama' which are among his most famous 1947 creations. ( Johnny Eggitt/AFP/Getty Images)
In this October 8,1996 file photo models showcase two rare Dior dresses to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Christian Dior's revolutionary New Look. The dresses 'Soiree' and 'Diorama' which are among his most famous 1947 creations. Johnny Eggitt/AFP/Getty Images
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