10 Reasons to Buy Vintage Designer Clothing

10 Reasons to Buy Vintage Designer Clothing

1. You get unique style without paying retail prices.
Many vintage online boutiques offer vintage designer clothing at deep discounts. A Marc Jacobs jacket might sell at Neiman Marcus for $1495, but you might find a vintage Marc Jacobs jacket online that’s been worn once or twice and looks as good as new for just $495. Wardrobetrailer.com is one online boutique that always offers pieces at 50-80% off retail prices.

2. You’ll find special and rare pieces that you won’t find at the mall.
Do you find yourself going from store to store in the mall only to find virtually the same old stuff over and over again in each store? Mass-produced clothing has taken over! Vintage designer clothes are one-of-a-kind and just give you more unique options to choose from.

3. You can consider vintage designer clothes as heirloom pieces.
Lately I’ve noticed it’s become a trend for women to pass down expensive designer clothes to their daughters, nieces and friends. All generations get to enjoy beautiful vintage designer pieces of the past without spending a ton of money to do so.

4. Vintage designer clothes just make you feel good.
Put on a piece of vintage designer clothing and notice how it makes you feel better and more confident. All women know there is nothing worse than throwing on any old thing in the morning and then feeling yucky all day. With vintage designer pieces you just don’t get that icky feeling because you know what you’re wearing is special and is made out of quality fabrics.

5. You can find clothes for all four seasons.
One of the things that drive women crazy is having to try on a sundress in January because the stores carry summer stock in the dead of winter! There is nothing like trying on that sundress in fluorescent lighting dressing rooms when you’re pasty pale.

6. The quality of craftsmanship is so much better than mass-produced clothing.
Vintage designer clothes have excellent seaming, structure and appearance. Classic lines and quality fabrics are used.

7. Most likely no one else will have on what you’re wearing.
No woman likes to be wondering if someone else is going to be wearing a similar dress--or even worse--the same dress, at a party or special event. Vintage designer pieces are often rare and some have survived even decades of simply hanging in someone’s closet, so you won’t have to worry about the dreaded “dress duplication” occurring at an event.

8. It just looks better.
With the upgraded fabrics and attention to detail, vintage designer clothes just look more expensive. Some of them look brand new. Some of them look like vintage. And both of these looks are a very good thing in a world where uncomfortable polyester and mass-made products fill the stores at the mall.

9. You can go green by buying vintage designer.
An added bonus--the piece has already been manufactured, so no need to worry about adding future pollutants into the air!


And the tenth reason for buying vintage designer clothes...

10. Because it’s just plain fun to wear vintage designer clothes!