If you're a seller of vintage clothing .... a bit flippant

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I went to a vintage clothing fair yesterday. Lots of stalls rammed with good quality vintage clothes including designer labels. Costs per item @£75 - £400 kind of range.

Most of the clothes were tiny - the waist on many garments probably around 24". Given that these days not many women have such small waists (unless generally adolescent, young or just petite build) I wonder if sellers really make an adequate living out of it?

Also if most of the dresses will fit mainly a younger demographic, how many young women would choose to wear vintage v. Zara and how many could afford this kind of price range?

Interestingly a lot of the stallholders were rather slender women wearing vintage, so does being around lots of older clothes reduce the size of the waist?😂

Some things can be altered. I am currently wearing a circle skirt that I removed the waistband from and remade with a bigger waistband. I think it was 24 inch and is now about 32

I was very slim in my early 20s mid 80s - I had a 22 inch waist - but even then I had some clothes that my mum had passed on that she wore in the late 50s, and the waist on those items was much more defined compared to the bust/hips than with my own clothes. I wore a size 10. I'm around a 16 now and I would hate to think what size label my current clothes would have been given in the 80s.

One thing I remember being unable to fasten from the things my mum gave me was a strapless boned sun top, I think she wore in around 1960 (I have some photos of her in Italy).