So when did second hand become vintage?

[StaceeJaxx]

When I was growing up anything second hand was "meffy", now "vintage" is cool. I've got nothing against second hand stuff, have bought and sold own fair share of stuff via ebay. Love getting hand me downs off people for the kids, and I have been known to scour charity shops for bargains.

But come on call it what it is, it's bloody second hand FFS! My sister blathers on about all her "vintage" clothing I'm so tempted to turn around and say "You mean second hand," but instead bite my tongue. DSD is the same, she has "vintage" clothes, one item being a suede jacket her aunt gave her from the 90's. It's bloody second hand! "Vintage" is just a snobby way of saying you wear second hand but your sooooo cool it's "vintage".

Can you tell it annoys the crap out of me?

70's stuff might be 'vintage' if you are talking about a gorgeous leather coat. Paisley rayon shirts - not so much!

For me, vintage is a Dior ball gown. If we're talking about Next or old M&S stuff, then it's definitely second hand!

DD(15) has taken to buying vintage clothing. She recently bought a nice floral top with a "canda" designer label in it! I haven't dared ask how much she spent on it.

It's "vintage" and "retro" when your DCs buy it or find it stuffed in the back of your wardrobe. It's just a scummy old piece of clothing if you find it in the back of your wardrobe and wear it yourself.

As for jumble sales . . . haven't been to a decent one for over five years now. I think eBay has killed them off.

Exactly Scholes. If you weren't born when it was first worn, you're fine.

Why don't you ask her "How old does something have to be before you would consider it vintage?"

Canda... C and A... I get it now.

I thought it said Canada for all those years.

I'm still wearing clothes from the 90a and not in a 'vintage' way either

at canda. When are you going to tell her?

Nothing looked good in the 70's? Really Beagle?

Are you sure

Love that ariadne and sadly lived through it. I was a loonpants, afghan coat , cheesecloth shirt, and platforms sort of a gal. I looked so cooool

I never realised that 'Canda' was C and A. I mean, I knew it was one of their own brands, like Clockhouse, but never made the mental leap from C&A to Canda.

Not that it matters...

I think the difference is between charging £10 or £40.

The thing the top looks like a great vintage top on her. On me, it would just look like an old C&A t-shirt that had faded in the wash.

She's too young to remember C&A, anyway, so the there's no news, as such to break to her!

Ah, jumble sales!! I got an amazing leather jacket for 50p!!! Definitely think eBay killed them off. As a teenager I dressed myself from jumble sales, Sue Ryder and junk shops - now all classed as vintage, only second hand then! My mum was horrified!! :)

I still wear my black shell suit but jacket and trousers separately.

I still have two petticoats from 1958 not the paper nylon types though. Oh, and a bikini that I wore in 1960.

Happy days in the 1980s - Saturday afternoon trawling the local jumble sales, then home for tea, cake and Brookside.

I believe that strictly speaking an antique is 100 + years old ie pre WWI, and vintage at least 50 years old so anything from art deco to 1960's though I know think vintage means more than 25 years old so taking in 1970's and early 1980's a bit confusing

Vintage is over fifty years old, anything before that is defined at retro

Envy and then some LBE, an Afghan , how i so much wanted one(and didn"t ever get) ALL the at that time , Coolio people wore them ! and yes i wanted to hang with them(confessional)!