Vintage Style: Buying and Wearing Classic Vintage Clothes

This is the first book on vintage clothing that doesn't aim to help make you look like you're an extra in a period movie. (Not that there's anything really wrong with that, but...). This is for fashion buffs who want to incorporate vintage pieces successfully into their existing wardrobes and thereby create a truly individual style for themselves.I loved the way the book inspired me to re-examine the clothing I already own, and how vintage pieces -- classic pieces -- might add new life to my wardrobe. The key word here is "classic", and this book goes a long way toward defining it.In addition to this book, I own several others on vintage clothing. Most of those books merely chronicle the various eras and styles of clothing, plus include price ranges for collectors. VINTAGE STYLE, on the other hand, shows how you can wear the clothes, not merely accumulate them. My only wish is that the authors had included a lot more on vintage accessories -- say, costume jewelry (charm bracelets); handbags; shoes; etc. But this was a fine step in the right direction, and I'd love to see more books like this! Hopefully, the authors are planning another edition!

There's nothing I hate more than a celebrity touting fashion book. Thankfully, Tiffany Dubin shows real people wearing vintage style in a flattering and accessible way. The clothes don't look like they've just been pulled from a moth-infested attic. They could have come straight from Barneys. Hard to believe they're both old and so up-to-date! I also appreciated the way new and old looks are worn together so that a woman can integrate vintage pieces into her contemporary wardrobe. Given that Dubin must be credited for infusing the vintage style movement with its current vitality and verve (when she headed the fashion department at Sothebys, she was the one who started the mass-movement to look cool in grandma's threads), it figures that she would be the one to write a how-to book for those who didn't make it to her standing-room-only auctions where the hippest New Yorkers learned how to mix Gucci with Rudi Gernreich.

As an amateur collector, I found this book very interesting and helpful. Not only can collecting be a challenge, but so can incorporating vintage clothes in with your everyday wardrobe. Tiffany Dubin's sense of style is creative as well as wearable. She illustrates her ideas through colorful pictures and descriptions of real women in realistic settings. You feel like you're getting sincere, up-to-date advise from someone who knows vintage intstead of learning from someone designing for Kate Moss.

This is the vintage clothing book I've been waiting for. So many of them are mere catalogs in B & W showing dowdy clothes on dowdy models -- useful for figuring out prices and the age of the garment, but not much else. But with great photography and art direction and attractive real people, this book contains great ideas on how to actually incorporate vintage clothing in your wardrobe. One vintage article of clothing is shown being worn several different ways for each person, sometimes with other vintage items, sometimes with newer items. Hopefully this book will encourage others to appreciate what I've come to love about vintage clothing -- its versatility, its quality, its stylishness and its timelessness.

This book is the perfect tool for learning how to buy vintage and how to wear it. Most importantly how to wear with modern pieces; think Winona Ryder, not Marcia Brady.The "models" are gorgeous working women who wear the clothes with style and pizzazz. The range of ages and shapes/sizes of the "models" is incredible and really drives home the point that classics become classics by being beyond fads or trends that limit their appeal to a moment in time. A treasure chest of buying information at the back, the book is worth it for the section alone (but the rest of the book is spectacular too).