Quotes About Vintage

Everything I do is unfabulous. I'm the most normal person. I love walking everywhere and going to hole-in-the-wall places, like nail shops, because they do the best job. And I go to vintage stores rather than high-end boutiques, because I like to dress different from other people.

My mother used to take me to flea markets in my stroller, and I would just rummage through the piles. You've got to dig through the overstuffed racks that everyone else just walks by. It's the only way to find the cool stuff.

I am a big fan of movies from the '70s.

In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.

I just love the black and white movies.

I think people find it weird that I have a lot of long antique-lace dresses that I wear with boots.

I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.

I'm kind of a Luddite myself. I've got a bunch of typewriters at home. I'm a big fan of old technology.

I have a '72 Volkswagen bus and it's lime green.

I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.

I am a sucker for an old pair of Levi's and a worn-out shirt.

I watch these old films in black and white, and suddenly the door opens, and there I am. The other day, I was wearing the most awful hat.

I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962.

I have been told that my voice is very suited to oldies albums.

I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.

I still remember watching 'Antiques Roadshow' as a child with my parents, on a Sunday night, sitting in our 1970s living room.

It looks ancient, - Amy Cahill

The thing already looks like its best days were decades ago.

There's a surprise inside a bottle of wine.

WINE FIRMS A wine firm is an entity that produces and sells wine.

Sometimes she pulled her mother's old college clothes out of the closet (pastel sweaters with moth holes, elbow gloves in every color, an aqua prom dress that—on Harriet—dragged a foot upon the ground).

Oh, both my shoes are shiny new, And pristine is my hat My dress is 1922… My life is all like that.

I'm obsessed with old rotary phones.

I was looking at this picture of Brooke Shields at Studio 54 the other day. Everyone in the shot looks amazing because they have these black and white cameras with a flash. I think that's what photographers should go back to.