Here's everything you need to know about caring for vintage garments, including the 9 products that can help you clean and extend the life of your favorite pieces.
All products featured on Vogue are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission.blouse with 3-D floral embellishments to a run-of-the-mill dry cleaner around the corner. It was returned to me with its chiffon over-layer in shreds and my previously thriving silk buds were rumpled, drooping, and wilted—like a flower bed dug up by the neighbor’s dog. I only had myself to blame, really.
Fashion is fragile. Consider that of all the extant objects from bygone decades housed in museums, the most care is taken in the conservation of fashion and textiles. While oil paintings remain forever on the walls of a museum’s permanent collection, fashion departments limit the display of clothing to six months only. Of course,that isn’t housed in a museum is meant to be worn and loved, but it does require a level of care.
The experience didn’t deter me from buying and collecting more vintage—if anything, it gave me more respect for my clothes. Fast fashion swung the pendulum away from concepts of ownership, care, and enhancing the longevity of an item, but with all things relating to style, it was only a matter of time before it swung back in theAs the fashion industry re-orients itself to this new change of course, shoppers are opting to buy less, buy pre-owned, and buy vintage.
, who preached that all of our possessions should spark joy, then maintaining an object’s joy-sparking essence is the next obvious step of the philosophy. Below, some essential products to help keep your vintage looking great.Not all clothing needs to be kept in garment bags but those pieces that need a bit of a barrier should be kept in one made of cloth—plastic bags prohibit oxygen flow and trap in odors.
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