August 3, 2018 Fashion

Should You Wear Vintage Clothing When You’re…Uh…of a Certain Vintage Yourself?

Power suits and MC Hammer “You Can’t Touch This” drop-crotch pants clog the racks at vintage clothing stores. Can those of us who wore them when they were first hot sport them again? Stephanie Dolgoff investigates.

Vintage Clothing Dilemma at Midlife: Am I Too Old to Wear This? | NextTribe The first in a series of articles about what we wear and how clothes make us feel.

I’m one of those women who always played out the vestiges of our collective hunter-gatherer instinct by continually shopping for clothes, often at vintage stores. Having only one body to cover and two feet to be shod, I don’t technically need anything—and haven’t since 1996. But that doesn’t stop me from being sucked into the carefully curated boutiques I pass as I walk around the city where I live, falling into a trance as I flip through racks.

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