How offten do you dress....

[Mr_D.]

Looking through the "Show us your non-vintage self" thread got me to thinking.


How often do you dress vintage?

I have been trying to do it on a daily basis but find that there are times when I don't want to get my clothing dirty (ie unloading a U-Haul) that I just grab some jeans and t-shirt, but I also find then when I go back to my vintage clothes I feel better. I never knew how uncomfortable jeans were till I started dressing vintage.

I know it's a little more time to dress, but I also find the feeling inside is great.

So how often do you dress vintage?

 

[ThesFlishThngs]

If you mean in all-vintage garments, or to present an authentic, one-era look, then not often at all. If you mean vintage/retro inspired, I'd say as often as I can.
When I see clients it's not practical to wear a skirt, what with climbing onto the massage table and all, but when I get home, I often change into something more stylish than my jeans and tank top. Today, an off day, I have on my new but somewhat retro styled black Target booties, vertical lined thigh-his, a fluted skirt, and a fitted, v-neck knit top.
While walking down the street a scruffy guy with a mohawk said "hello" to me, and not wanting to be rude, I replied, "hello, how are you?" He then continued to say, "You look nice. Smart, as the British would say." Go figure.

 

[4and1]

Every day. Not exaclty vintage, but 'inspired' with less rise to the trousers and modern, collared shirts. And, of course, a vintage fedora.

I also wear jeans and t-shirts for dirty work/play and, now that I know better, find the jeans uncomfortable.

 

[C-dot]

I always dress vintage - almost always in repro clothing, but nonetheless, an authentic vintage look.

Some of my friends ask me if I'm comfortable going somewhere like a job interview, or to school, dressed vintage - Honestly, it doesn't occur to me not to. It's how I am naturally inclined to dress.

People also ask me how I manage "all that effort." I say it's much less of an effort to feel comfortable than it would be to "fit in."

 

[anon`]

Wednesdays. I've lately been volunteering at a local hospital on Wednesdays, so I usually toss on a suit and hat.

Beyond that, whenever I've a need to look the part, or just better dressed.

Otherwise, whenever I bloody well feel like it. Like today.

 

[Ethan Bentley]

Looking through the "Show us your non-vintage self" thread got me to thinking.


How often do you dress vintage?

I have been trying to do it on a daily basis but find that there are times when I don't want to get my clothing dirty (ie unloading a U-Haul) that I just grab some jeans and t-shirt, but I also find then when I go back to my vintage clothes I feel better. I never knew how uncomfortable jeans were till I started dressing vintage.

I know it's a little more time to dress, but I also find the feeling inside is great.

So how often do you dress vintage?

Most days, particularly any day with business or a Sunday.

 

[scottyrocks]

About as close to vintage as I get is what I would call 'retro-vintage-style.'
That means pleated trousers, a button down shirt with a tie, vest, my watch and chain, traditional men's shoes, and a fedora.

I usually do this when I go out at night.

 

[Lokar]

If I'm planning to do do some heavy cleaning, or work at the allotment, or work with oil, I throw on jeans (I have a nice pair of high waisted jeans with brace buttons) and a t-shirt. Otherwise, whenever I can I'm always in a suit, or often vintage inspired casual-wear in summer.

 

[Edward]

I aim to dress as close to vintage as is possible on a daily basis. I do this not out of some specific desire to 'be vintage' per se, more because it is simply how I prefer to dress. My clothes are predominantly of contemporary manufacture, though they are, where possible, repro or at least very cose in style to vintage patterns. The odd psychobilly day aside, when one of my vast collection of printed T shirts (mostly music related) will rear its head, I don't much go in for a more contemporary look at all now. Always wear some form of hat - I could count on one hand the number of occasions on which I have left the house without one during the past two and a half years..... and at that I could have had a couple of fingers amputated and it make no difference. My hats are mostly modern manufacture, but all in a distinctly vintage style. I still struggle at times with putting together an outfit that is accurately "early 30s", "mid 40s" or "early 50s", say, but the long term aim is to dress, as far as is possible, as if every day is somewhere between 1930 and 1959. I get some ways there already, but I'd like it to be more specific than 'that general period'.

FWIW, unlike many, I have not abandoned denim, nor do I see it as something to be looked down on - my jeans certainly have their place and I don't find them at all uncomfortable. both pairs that I wear regularly are Prison Blues brand, cut to original 50s patterns; I also have a Marks and spencer pair which are of a very similar cut.

I have definitely changed my wardrobe somewhat in the past three or four years: I certainly cannot imagine myself wearing anything that appears in the window of Next now. Still nice clothes and at a good price (though I hate this 'pre-distressed' look that has been popular for some time now), but not for me any longer. I would consider their shirts again if only they were not so wedded to the wide spread collar on anything with French cuffs.

 

[kamikat]

I make my clothes from vintage patterns, so my clothes are new but vintage-styled. I dress in those everyday during the summer, not as much in the winter. I just prefer not to wear pretty dresses and nice, high heeled shoes during the rainy/muddy/snowy season.

 

[LordBest]

Technically never, since I'm still busy losing weight in order to justify the purchase of proper clothing (four or five months and I'm there, the torture of waiting is acute). But I never leave the house without a hat. When when going into the next door neighbours for dinner last night, I still wore a hat for the forty-five second journey and removed it on the doorstep. I try and wear decent trousers and woolen jumpers/sweaters and leather 'vintagey' so I could maybe pass for a 'vintage' college student. Maybe.

 

[analiebe]

daily... almost always authentic vintage garments make up all or most of any outfits i wear... otherwise i'm wearing garments i've made from vintage patterns in vintage or true-to-original fabrics/ trims or repro that is true to type in cut/ fabric/ finish... 95% of my hats are original vintage but i do have some beautiful repro ones... my jewelery is all vintage... shoes (apart from a couple of lucky finds) are mostly repro as its hell trying to find vintage womens shoes to fit...
for cleaning or working in the garden or any other chore i wear either 50's cut jeans with a cotton shirt or mens singlet.... or one of many 40's or 50's cotton house dresses

i've been collecting vintage clothing for decades now and i suppose i've moved from dressing in vintage garb for some of the time, to most of the time, to (for about the last 4 years) all of the time! i can't even imagine dressing any other way now...

 

[skyvue]

the long term aim is to dress, as far as is possible, as if every day is somewhere between 1930 and 1959

This describes my approach. I like to try to reproduce a particular era, but it doesn't bother me if my suit is from the 1950s, my tie is from the '40s, and my shoes are classic style but contemporary.

Even when I'm dressed casually, my sports shirts are vintage, as are the majority of my sports coats. I seem to have given up t-shirts (somewhat ironic, since I have a small business selling tees, but even those have vintage graphics on them), but I'll still occasionally wear a pair of jeans -- perhaps three times a month.

Even if the only vintage item I'm wearing is a shirt, my vintage-style mustache adds to effect. And I virtually always wear a fedora, of straw or felt depending on the season.

 

[Not-Bogart13]

People also ask me how I manage "all that effort." I say it's much less of an effort to feel comfortable than it would be to "fit in."

:eusa_clap Bravo! Good for you, C-dot. Besides, it's always worth the effort to be yourself, right?

Being as I'm more the vintage-inspired type (can't really afford repro, and true vintage in my size is almost non-existent), I'd say it's based on the season. In cooler weather; almost every time I leave the house. In warm weather; I try to stick with button front shirts these days, but beyond that I just dress neat. It's much easier to build a department store winter wardrobe that suggests vintage style than it is a summer one.

 

[Amy Jeanne]

I make all my own clothes so I wear nouveaux vintage every single day. I sleep on pincurls every single night, too. I'm like this everyday all the time. It's me.

I sleep in boxer shorts and old t-shirts, though. Until I can find some NICE 30s nightgown patterns.

 

[Viola]

I try to wear classic/retro/vintage-inspired whenever I want to look cute, or for work. I don't have much actual vintage. And I'm not satisfied with what I do have, but its a process.

I don't do my hair vintage, really, unless you count fortuitious times my hair decides to act Bacall instead of just batty, and my makeup is edging towards vintage but very, very slowly. And my shoes will probably never be right because I have never found vintage shoes that fit.

 

[Lorrel Mae]

Lately I've been dressing more 50's.

I am not committed to any one decade, and it ALWAYS depends on my mood.

I think I dress more vintage "inspired".

 

[Slim Portly]

Roghly 95% of my wardrobe is vintage or retro, and because I only do the jeans/sneakers/knit shirt thing out of necessity (moving furniture, a hot day out running errands, etc.), that leaves me the pleasure of dressing vintage/retro almost every day.

 

[Nick D]

Most of my suits are more appropriate for fall/winter weather, so I dress vintage or vintage inspired more in those seasons. I'd say four to seven days a week in the colder months, two or three in the warmer. I'm working on expanding my summer wardrobe, but I won't pretend I don't welcome the return to cooler temperatures.

 

[Grant Fan]

I am dressed up most days but because of my job I have to wear dress slacks most days. But my tops are almost all vintage reproductions or hint to vintage, and my hair is usually vintage.