Deep in the Maze of Vintage Clothing

Two years before I started an online newsletter about obscure vintage clothing—and a decade before I published a book collecting 100 editions of that newsletter—I went to the first or second iteration of the Inspiration vintage fair in New York. A sort of Comic Con for old clothes, the event was held in a small rented events space on 18th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues. This would have been around 2012, when vintage buying and collecting, as a hobby, was still mostly practiced by artists, the indigent, and fashion workers. It was done cagily, either on eBay or in… Read Full Article