We all have different fashion influences; be it fashion magazines, celebrities, our friends, vampires,...or, just wearing whatever the hell you want to wear!
My resolution has allowed me to reflect on what influenced my own personal style and love of vintage clothing in the first place. "Vintage" was never a word I really heard growing up, but I realized my fondness for it came from none other than my own mother.
As a woman who had grown up in Europe, where quality clothing and style were valued, she (and my Nana) brought many lovely European-made clothes back to Canada (as they moved back and forth...a lot). And luckily, she hung onto quite a few items from her youth that were subsequently passed on to me! (Good thing we were roughly the same size...)
So today I share one of my favourite outfits handed down to me from my mother - a luxurious 70s Pierre Cardin cashmere sweater and a 70s high-waisted button-up suede skirt. Oh, and I dug up an old photo of me wearing it, in 2003 (at the tender age of 17):
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| The original boho-chic |
Yep that's me - braids and all! I was one pretty stylish teenager (or so I liked to think! No one else was wearing this stuff in high school.) Not even realizing that what I was wearing was technically "vintage", I just thought it was really neat to be wearing clothing that my mother had worn to school when she was my age. It was like wearing a little piece of family history!
I still have the sweater (and it still fits!) It's my favourite cashmere garment I own, and one of my most-loved vintage pieces. Unfortunately my mum didn't keep the skirt, since neither of us kept our teenage 24" waists. But these hand-me-downs made a lasting impression on me, and solidified my love for vintage - not just for the style and quality, but that every piece has its own history.
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