Black vintage
This newsletter started as coverage of vintage clothing on eBay in 2014, if you subscribe to it then you are likely into vintage clothing, old shit, furniture. Below is a list of Black vintage sellers and dealers, about 350 at the moment, more to come, with sellers here dealing everything from 20s to 00s clothing to furniture, makeup, accessories, housewares.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZrnZPerzslDIm3osMBaUHU0p5EASzM34HQsDC72lLBA/htmlview
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Here is a video of Bobby Garnett from Bobby from Boston, the store. He passed in 2016 at 66 and the store and warehouse are still open, run by Jessica, his daughter. For a long time it was the best vintage store in America and honestly it still might be. Anything as good (Cherry NYC in Chelsea for example) was tougher to buy from as a private person, other places were not as consistently good. Probably the single consistently best storefront (IE not the Rose Bowl) for vintage clothing. The warehouse is open a Sunday a month and it’s worth a trip.
There are real politics to buying vintage clothing—it’s sustainable, it’s not really exploitative, it’s stimulating, it’s individualistic, it’s as wide as it is deep—and while we shouldn’t trick ourselves into thinking consumer choices replace political action or alone create a better world, it’s still a case where doing the right thing is like, not a chore. I think the best part about vintage is that when it’s a micro-business all the money, all of it, goes to the seller. And all of the clothes go to the buyer. You’re not paying for rent, storefront, anything. Just the clothes and the seller’s time and intelligence. It’s a perfect system.
Here is the link again: please share as you see fit, contact me with sellers as well.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZrnZPerzslDIm3osMBaUHU0p5EASzM34HQsDC72lLBA/htmlview
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