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Vintage Clothing
Vintage clothing is past, and present garments that consist an amusement of individuality. “Today vintage dressing encompasses choosing accessories, mixing vintage garments with new, as well as creating an ensemble of various styles and periods. Vintage clothes are low prices for high end named brands. It has been part of the world since World War I as an idea of reusing clothing because of the textile shortage. It is used for helping the environment by re wearing the clothing and repurposing them into alternative items. Vintage clothing can be found in cities at local boutiques or local charities, or also on the internet (e.g. ebay, esty). Goodwill and Salvation Army are the top two Charites to donate or shop for vintage clothing. Vintage clothing is used for a muse for new designs and know to be past retro clothing.

Vintage clothing is a form of ease in a fast moving world. “Re-wearing clothes from a personal wardrobe and wearing newly acquired vintage and retro clothing, can be understood as a desire to recreate familiarity, or felicity, in a world that is rapidly changing and increasingly impersonal. “Already vintage whores, or are on the verge of becoming dedicated second hand clothes consumers, who prepared to get their hands dirty and sift through consignment stores and charity shops.

Vintage clothing is a world of past and present clothing at low prices. Vintage shopping can be viewed as a continuation of discount culture, while simultaneously achieving an individual identity and exclusivity that the brand names have lost.

Since World War I, the idea of vintage clothing or reusing clothing was an idea. During World War I, most clothing was repaired, mended, or tailored for other family members or recycled within the home as rags or quilts. The government conservation campaign used slogans such as "Make economy fashionable lest it become obligatory” resulted in an approximate 10% reduction in the production of trash.

In the late 20th century there was as increased demand for high end name brands. One antecedent to the popularization of vintage shopping occurred during the 1980s with the increased formality and acceptance of discount shopping for high-end brands, particularly in North America.

Fashion is non selective as it used to be. Vintage has now shifted from subculture to mass culture because of the disappointing fact that, regardless of price, fashion is rarely exclusive.

Fashion is fast and at our finger tips. The very definition of fashion fuels the momentum for change, which creates demand for ongoing replacement of products with something that is new and fresh.

The textile recycling industry is the environment part of the fashion industry. Throughout the world, used apparel products are salvaged as reclaimed textiles and put to new uses. The textile recycling industry is able to process 93% of the waste without the production of any new hazardous waste or harmful by products.

Since textiles have changed, there are challenges that the recycling textile industry goes through. After synthetic fibers came onto the market in the 20th century, textile recycling became more complex for two distinct reasons (1) fiber strength increased making it more difficult to shred or “open” the fibers and (2) fibers blend made it more difficult to purify the sorting process. Nonetheless, the recycling industry must cope with everything that the fashion industry has generated.