Within the vintage fashion and clothing resale community, the word “vintage” is thrown around very often as a sort of blanket term for all older items, but its vast usage is often quite inaccurate. It is heavily debated what vintage really is, and the word, through advertising and overall word of mouth, has definitely become muddled in terms of what it truly means. Vintage isn’t a sort of umbrella term for all items older than 20 years old; it is a word used to specify that a

Somewhere between the four-foot-tall stereo speakers of the 1980s and that tiny Bose stereo sitting on a shelf like an elf, we stopped repairing things and started throwing them away. Buying new became less of a decision and more of a constitutional right—somewhere between freedom of speech and free two-day shipping. We bought new stuff to fill our homes, then more new stuff to sit beside our old new stuff. Then we bought more stuff.

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