Vintage Style: Buying and Wearing Classic Vintage Clothes [Hardcover]

Ann E. Berman (Author), Tiffany Dubin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 24, 2000

For any woman who ever wondered how to wear vintage clothing with panache, at last there is Vintage Style, the book that takes the mystery out of buying, wearing, and caring for vintage clothes. It's about vintage clothes as a mainstream choice.s

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About the Author

Tiffany Dubin is the former founder and director of Sotheby's world famous fashion department in New York. She is a leading expert in the field of vintage clothes. She is now the marketing director for the recently created Auction Channel. Ann E. Berman is a freelance writer and journalist who writes about collecting, art and design, including a monthly column for Town & Country. They both live in New York City.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Harper; 2d ptg. edition (October 24, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060194758
• ISBN-13: 978-0060194758
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #503,086 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great gift book for your favorite fashionista!, October 24, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Vintage Style: Buying and Wearing Classic Vintage Clothes (Hardcover)

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).

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, a stylish vintage clothing book!, October 26, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Vintage Style: Buying and Wearing Classic Vintage Clothes (Hardcover)

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.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wish there were more like this!, February 15, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Vintage Style: Buying and Wearing Classic Vintage Clothes (Hardcover)

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!