How Vintage Design Beats Big Brands: Small Business SEO

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Beautify your small business products with vintage design tips to compete with big brands. When it comes to improving your small business, there are a few things that you need to take into consideration. The most important one is what you’re inspired by. A trend in the design world is bringing vintage back, as this …

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From Silk to Nylon: The History of Tights

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For today’s women, tights are an everyday item we know well. However, centuries ago, tights were made from silk and worn mainly by people of wealth and status. After the advent of Nylon hosiery, what was once a status item became a staple part of every woman’s wardrobe with the invention of pantyhose – or …

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Vintage Clothing – The Past can be your Future

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There are two kinds of people in the world: the ones who look at a rack of vintage clothing and see outdated jackets, impractical hats, and shoes that could maim you—and the ones who see stories. You are, of course, the second type. Or you wouldn’t be here, reading this, already thinking about the coat …

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Vintage Wedding Style: A Century of Bridal Chic

Vintage wedding style always to some extent inspire the dress a bride ultimately chooses for her special day. Bridesmaids also have a huge history to delve into for inspiration. The 1920s are never out of vogue. Here’s an account of a very 1920s English wedding day from the diary of an Elsie Wood. A 1920s …

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Edwardian Style and Opulent Jewelry of the 1900s

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Any dive into Edwardian style without a mention of Downton Abbey would be sacrilege. The first season imbued late Edwardian life and fashions. Be it Lady Mary’s sleek gowns or Tom Branson’s perfectly tailored suits, every outfit was a slice of the extravagance that defined this age. Nevertheless, the unwavering Dowager Countess herself, Violet Crawley, …

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The Corset – Fashion’s Most Enduring Shapewear

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The market for the corset, is huge. Europe’s brassiere, girdle, and corset market combined is expected to become $3.5 billion by the end of 2035. A waistline worth the hype! That’s typically not what one associates with Victorian torture devices or the secret underthings of historical dramas.  Is the motivation behind the demand the same …

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