What's the Funniest Things to happen to you in vintage?

[Drew B]

I started this thread because today something very funny happened. I sprained my ankle, badly. But it was a funny sprain.

I was wearing a lovely brown 40's style suit today and was running to catch up with a friend when i somehow rolled my ankle and fell. I was running quiet fast and due to this the damage to my ankle was quiet bad, I simply couldn't walk.

So with the assistance of my friend I hobbled to a doctor and was given an ankle brace and a walking stick. This helped a lot. I can now walk but very slowly.

Its very uncomfortable to have 60year old men RUSH past you.

I later found myself crossing a bridge surrounded by 3 or so elderly gentlemen, all with walking sticks. We were all traveling at the same lightning pace and we were all dressed in the same style. Infact the only real difference between myself and these gents was that whilst they were all around 80 years old, I am 19.

Many passing faces looked me most bemused, I couldn't stop laughing.

Whats your funny vintage story?

 

[Edward]

A couple of months back, I was walking through Spitalfields Market here in London, on a sunny Sunday afternoon. I was wearing a three piece, grey suit with a darker pinstripe, a later repro in an early 30s style, with all the accessories, a grey Federation, and black and white spectators. Child of aboutg six, standing behind me pipes up:

"Mummy, why is that man wearing lady shoes?"

lol

 

[Spiffy]

I was wearing a semi-routine (for me anyway) outfit of a 50's style shirtwaist dress, seamed stockings, and 2.5 inch heels yesterday. I went to my Lighting class dressed like this, assuming that we were having another 3 hour lecture and I (stupidly) refused to attend a 3 hour lecture in jeans and a t-shirt. So instead my professor springs a studio day on us, so I got to run around the pitch-black set in my heels and dress, sliding all over the place and trying to perform normal grip-type activities such as; climbing over things, opening heavy equipment with my feet, coiling cables, and hauling big stupid heavy metal stands.

It was pretty comical. I've learned my lesson. I will now wear my 20-hole Docs with my 50's dresses to class.

 

[Mr. 'H']

So with the assistance of my friend I hobbled to a doctor and was given an ankle brace and a walking stick.

Sounds very Howard Hughes-esque!

lol

 

[LizzieMaine]

During a concert on a very hot and humid night this past summer, the theatre air conditioning system froze up -- and when this happens it's part of my job to press the manual reset button. Trouble is, said button is located in a loft above the stage, accessible only via a ladder and trap door, located at stage right. And further trouble is, that ladder is fully visible from a large portion of the audience -- so about a couple hundred people and the musicians on stage got to see my underpinnings as I climbed up the ladder in dress, stockings, and heels.

I spent the rest of that show in my office. With the door locked.

 

[Miss 1940's]

Srewball moments in Vintage, I got them all

I must say, theres noting like running after a 6 year old in Saks in my beautiful vintage 1930's dress.Not my 6 year old, for if that was my kid, she would know that this Garment has been around alot longer then her, and if you intend too behave in such a matter.... it will be.
Then theres the time that I missed my Train to San Fransico, wearing a beauitful late 1940's satin Suit.... yeah that was Fun. Oh did I mention that it was a hot summer's morning in Bakersfield Cailfornia....

 

[MadelienneBlack]

Keep your pity, mister!

This one might be more fit for the "comments you get when you dress vintage thread", but I thought it was rather funny myself, so I'll post it here.

My senior year of high school we were doing a showcase of songs from our school musical at the district-wide choir concert. I had a lead in the show, and so since there was no requirement to wear our costumes from the show, and I would be performing in front of a couple hundred parents and kids, I decided to look nice and dress vintage head to toe. As I walked into the auditorium later that day, one of the users (and older gent wearing jeans and a tshirt, I might add) stopped me and said, "Man, it must really suck that they make you wear that costume all day when you're only singing a few songs. I feel bad for ya, kid."
I just stared at him, laughed awkwardly and left.

The thing of it was, our show was set in the 70's. How he made my 1940's cocktail dress out to be some psychadelic polyester reject, I'll never know. I thought I looked pretty darn good!

I might mention, this man also had a mullet.

 

[Dr Doran]

"They make you wear a monkey suit to teach?" said a fellow DJ back when I was a DJ at KALX radio and had just gotten out of a class I was teaching.

 

[Rachael]

I was more vintage than usual when this happened, but it was funny.


The local Rotary Club had me come to speak dressed as Dr John McLoughlin's daughter (circa 1840). So I'm standing there in the buffet line before my presentation and someone asked me "are you Amish?" I explained I couldn't be Amish, there were buttons on my dress.

 

[SpitfireXIV]

i just had a bunch of high school kids yell out of a car as they passed by:

"Trick or Treat!"

*it was nowhere near Hallowe'en either lol

 

[Jay]

One time I went for a walk around town in a 40s 3 piece tweed suit, wild 30s tie, and a brown fedora. As I passed a baseball field where some kids were playing, one of the boys, about 7 or 8 stops and looks at me.

"Hello, sir," he says, and goes back to throwing a ball around, or whatever.

Being called "sir" when I was about 17 was pretty funny to me. I guess clothing does make an impression on people.

 

[Drew B]

I might mention, this man also had a mullet.

hahahaha! a mullet.... oh dear.

 

[SuperKawaiiMama]

Vintage Olympics Here I Come

I dress vintage or vintage inspired every day. I also have two small children 4 and 1. While out shopping I was waiting at the bottom of an escalator while Miss 4 decided to take a ride up and down. At the same time a very elderly man asked me to help him ride to the top of the escalator (possibly due to my attire or the fact that every other shopper had ignored his requests). I decided that as I could see the baby in the pram that would be fine and I'd just head straight back down. I called out to Miss 4 to wait for me at the bottom and proceeded to escort this gentleman to the top. Suddenly on my return ride I hear a distressed shopper calling to me that Miss 4 is pushing the pram up the escalator! Uh oh. As the baby is about to be tumbled from the pram onto the metal stairs, I grab the railing with both hands and vault from one side to the other, grabbing the pram and the child with each hand. All while wearing a 1940's day dress, seamed stocking, underpinnings and heels. Needless to say, my stylish athleticism was meet with a round of applause. Wonder Woman has nothing on me!

 

[Drew B]

thats pretty darn incredible. Now my story feels a little inadequete.

If only someone had filmed it you would be eternally super.

 

[Diamondback]

Being called "sir" when I was about 17 was pretty funny to me. I guess clothing does make an impression on people.

Welcome to my world--back when I was wearing the suit as part of my regular college wardrobe, I was regularly confused for faculty or an administrator. Even though there were enough differences to set it off, the move to khaki still got me confused for faculty or occasionally a visiting recruiter... which invariably provoked an explanation of "the Army hasn't issued khaki since the '50s, and the Navy's changed theirs considerably since then also."

Clothes really do make the man sometimes, don't they?

 

[SuperKawaiiMama]

Diamondback - Why were there never men like you around when I was at university? What I wouldn't have given for a dapper gent to enliven my days.

 

[Diamondback]

Somehow I doubt that--the suit was my Secret Service black, complete with some bulges to imply presence of "concealed weaponry", designed to send a message to any who intended harm toward the boss that "even if you do succeed in getting past me to harm her, you will not leave the encounter alive"...

Thank you for the compliment, though.

An insulting one was with the same suit and gray overcoat, being referred to as "KGB"...

 

[SuperKawaiiMama]

Somehow I doubt that--the suit was my Secret Service black, complete with some bulges to imply presence of "concealed weaponry", designed to send a message to any who intended harm toward the boss that "even if you do succeed in getting past me to harm her, you will not leave the encounter alive"...

Thank you for the compliment, though.

An insulting one was with the same suit and gray overcoat, being referred to as "KGB"...

I know this is a bit fftopic: but that really made me laugh. When I was about 18, I used to carry around a silver metal attache case in the hopes that people would think I was a spy carrying weapons, and think I was either terribly interesting or terribly dangerous!
lol

 

[Diamondback]

In my case, though, it was deadly serious--the boss had a stalker ex, and my campus had a policy on concealed firearms for permitholders of "don't ask, don't tell"--I never actually carried then, but it created an effective deterrent by having others believe I did...

First Rule of Executive Protection: "Simply having a 'Presence' is the first and most important weapon in the arsenal. Having at least one visible and conspicuous Agent is the Principal's First Line of Defense, dissuading the less-determined threats, and refocusing the more serious ones' attention so the Principal and Close Escort can break contact." Do I sound like Matt Westen (Burn Notice) yet?lol

 

[Mojito]

SuperKawaiiMama - wow! The "Kawaii" part of your nick is appropriate, but the first and last parts are even more apt!