New Old Stock/With Tags: To Wear or Not to Wear?

[PrettySquareGal]

I'm packing for my move and have some gorgeous vintage coats I don't plan to wear because they still have the original tags. I feel like I need to preserve them and enjoy "wearing" them in my daydreams. However, I want to wear them next fall!

Do you sometimes have a hard time deciding if you should cut the tags and wear a vintage garment? What do you do?

 

[Foofoogal]

yes, I am the same way. Not sure if I want to be the one to do this after the item has lasted so long. I refuse to tear magazines apart to sell the ads and it is sort of the same but I have a summer frock I am pretty sure I am going to take the tags off and wear.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Wear them. That's why they were made.

bk

 

[LizzieMaine]

I wear old-store-stock hosiery all the time -- but I carefully save the tags, boxes, tissue-paper wrapping, and other packaging materials. And if I came across a coat or a dress I liked, well, I'd probably do the same thing.

I do draw the line at old-stock toiletries though. I have an eighty-year-old tube of Ipana sitting on my bathroom shelf that I probably won't be opening anytime soon.

 

[Miss RM]

I do the same as LizzieMaine! So long as I save the tags, I feel o.k. about it

 

[skyvue]

I wear NOS stuff without no hesitation, but I'd never destroy an old magazine by tearing pages out of it.

But I would and do peruse my old magazines, which I think correlates more closely wearing vintage clothing. An old magazine that is never opened is just a pile of pulp, the treasures therein never to be (re)discovered.

 

[Pilgrim]

I don't buy stuff unless I can wear it. I have enough old stuff in my closets without intentionally adding to it! (I'm not very good about cleaning stuff out.)

 

[zetwal]

Wear them (unless purchased solely to resell later).

 

[Viola]

Wear them but don't use them to make crafty-type projects out of. I have a personal reaction that's visceral and quite different between just wearing something, for instance, and taking it apart and using half and sewing the other half to something else. I don't know, that's just me. Rather like the difference between using a set of plates, and thus exposing them to possible accidental damage, chips and whatnot, and smashing them up for mosiacs.

 

[PrettySquareGal]

Alrighty. I will wear them this fall! (I wanted to be talked into it.)

 

[TheDutchess]

I try to have my cake and eat it too. If the tag is in the right spot I will just tuck the tag in when i wear it; (completely embarrassed to admit that) but hey if no one can tell then who cares right?

 

[KittyT]

I wouldn't keep anything I couldn't or wouldn't wear. I'll happily cut the tags off of NOS items so I can wear them, though I may hold onto the tags for awhile.

 

[Brooksie]

Agreed, wear them. Now arn't you excited you have new vintage coats to wear this fall!

 

[PrettySquareGal]

Agreed, wear them. Now arn't you excited you have new vintage coats to wear this fall!

I am!

 

[Foofoogal]

I wouldn't keep anything I couldn't or wouldn't wear.

I am trying. Seems people sure measure differently though.

 

[Lotta Little]

Aww, wear it and wear it good! Life's too short, and all that.

 

[SpitfireXIV]

definitely keep the tags & wear the clothes. fabrics have such a short shelf life in the great scheme of things, that it's seems a shame not to use something so pretty for what it was designed for.

fftopic:
the only exception to not using vintage in my day to day life is "things with plugs." my pal was going to send me a retro 70's smiley face lamp, but the cord shorted out & burned her house down before she had the opportunity to send it to me.

 

[PrettySquareGal]

definitely keep the tags & wear the clothes. fabrics have such a short shelf life in the great scheme of things, that it's seems a shame not to use something so pretty for what it was designed for.

fftopic:
the only exception to not using vintage in my day to day life is "things with plugs." my pal was going to send me a retro 70's smiley face lamp, but the cord shorted out & burned her house down before she had the opportunity to send it to me.

Great point!

And that would be really funny if not true!

 

[Miss Sis]

I agree, cut the tags and USE them! That's what I do, unless you bought it purely to keep in it's unworn state or to sell on later.

You might as well enjoy the use of these items. I too admit to keeping tags off things - it makes me feel *better* somehow, even though I have no hesitation in wearing New Old Stock. Wonder why that is? [huh]

 

[Lily Powers]

If no one has worn them, then it's about time someone put some soul into those garments! Wear them and love them, have fun in them and give them some history for their next vintage-loving owner to honor.