Designer Label Fashion

What’s not to love about vintage designer fashion - ethical, on trend, and thanks to a 25% discount offer at US vintage designer boutique Posh Vintage, cheaper!

Posh Vintage sells vintage handbags, vintage designer dresses, rock tees and much more from top designers including Halston, Gucci, Ossie Clark, Dior, and Biba. And until around 21/04/09, Posh Vintage is offering 25% off across their whole online store - just use coupon code posh 25.

Check out this gorgeous navy blue Peirre Balmain logo clutch bag with chain handle, circa 1970s, $385 - and this stunning blue and white patterned maxi dress by Emilio Pucci for Formit Rogers, circa 1970s, $665. (Prices listed before any discount.)

Find out more about ordering from Posh Vintage.

(The Posh Vintage Emilio Pucci / Lily Plitzer section is worth a look alone. I am currently disguising my baby bump with a gorgeous blue and green iris flower patterned Emilio Pucci mini-slip-worn-as-maternity-top.)

Don’t forget to read all the Posh Vintage info on the item’s condition and other features, and to check sizes as US ones often differ to UK or European sizes. (Although this size difference may be a bonus for anyone in NYC for a shopping trip who finds they have gone from a UK 10 to a US 6 - a 6!!! - despite pigging out on enormous US  portion sizes, it’s a real pain if you forget when stuck in Blighty and order online in your usual UK size).

So visit Posh Vintage for 25% off - just use coupon code posh 25. (Please note, this offer is due to end around the 21 April 2009.)

Don’t get me wrong, I love vintage. I’m just surprised it has stayed hot for so long – since vintage made a comeback, lace and military have been in and out about 36 times.

But why do rich celebrities and models love it so much - when they have access to the best new designs and new designers (often for free)?

• Is it because it’s super-ethical (unless you’ve got yourself a vintage dodo feather hat)?
• Is it because it is cheaper than new designer fashion and they want to feel our credit crunch fashion pain?
• Or could it be that the fashion pack love vintage so much because they are the only ones who can actually get into it?

I’m plumping for that last one. Let’s face it, vintage forces us to accept that a 2008 size 10 is not the same as a 1968 size 10. And if we’re two stone heavier than we were then, but we can still get into a (modern) size 10, then something’s up (usually the zip, thank god).

I’ve got a gorgeous dress of my mum’s from the 1960s – it’s a red, knee-length shift dress with a green and gold paisley pattern. If I breathe in, and don’t speak, or eat, or move, it fits like a glove. And it’s a size 14. But I’m a 10! (a 2008 size 10. I was also a 1980s size 10 though I was 20lb lighter then. Hmmm).

It is a lovely dress though - so I will keep wearing it (silently, without moving). I just won’t go any further back in my hunt for vintage without being prepared to find out I’m a 1930s size 20.

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