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vanyla: The Real Vintage →

This market is massively nice. Went on opening weekend when it was pissing down rain, and it was still a good time. Came precariously close to buying a vintage US-made Levis jacket lined with some kind of flannel blanket-type situation. Plus, the antique shop on that block (totally spacing the name) is the real deal. 

vanylapdx:

As mentioned to y’all last month, The Portland Flea is the Rose City’s hottest new street market!

Located at SE 6th Ave. between Morrison St. and Yamhill St. in SE, the Portland Flea is destined to become the focal point for Portland’s thriving antique goods business.

The…

vanyla: Introducing the Portland Flea →

vanylapdx:

The beauty of Portland is that it constantly surprises you. There are new restaurants, new music, and new events that add to the city’s already thriving culture.

Well, we have another one for you. Introducing the Portland Flea.

This Saturday, September 17th Portland Flea comes to…

I’m all about it. See you there. Break out the suits for your boy, huh?

Ladies of Portland, if you are in the market for a fancy hat

I know, I know. Spring’s long gone. Won’t be back for another 1,000 months or whatever. But still! The good folks at Oregon Children’s Theatre are putting on a big-assed costume/vintage/fancy lady’s hat sale this weekend, just in time for Halloween. Now: We at Stumptown Magazine don’t condone buying nice vintage clothes just to wear one time, as a joke, on Halloween. So go, and buy things you’ll actually wear, even if you won’t get a chance to wear them until next April, or May, or August. 

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meganmcisaac:

portland, oregon.
august 2011.

Love love love this. Like, intensely love it. Like, want it framed in my house love it.

putthison:

Kansas City haberdasher & president-to-be Harry S. Truman on his wedding day in 1919. Note that his suit looks almost completely contemporary, despite the photograph being 92 years old.

Automatic HST reblog duh.

Many Portland vintage stores are awful.

Portland has a handful of really nice vintage shops. Avalon is one we like quite a bit; there are always gems hidden among the multiple racks of suits and jackets - like a madras seersucker jacket we found last night that was just a tick too big to be tailored to fit. But! Then there are the multiple millions of vintage shops in town that are just fucking awful and tasteless. 

We’re not going to name names here; the market will sort out which stores stay and which quietly shutter, to be sure. But, speaking very generally here, almost every vintage and second-hand shop in the city is jam-packed full of crap that no one wears, not even Portlanders, a portion of which will wear any old fucking thing. It’s like living in that pool scene from Boogie Nights:

“That cowboy look died out about six years ago.”

“It’s coming back though!”

“No it’s not. No it’s not. It’s over. It’s dead.”

Now, I know there’s something out there for everyone. I imagine people who are really into tacky pearl-button cowboy shirts and shit totally exist! But even the proprietors of these awful places have to admit: this kind of stuff is just kitch. It’s crap that comes in and out of style every other decade or so. Whereas: Vintage stores that have actual Nice Old Things, stuff that looks good in any year of any decade ever - those are the shops that ultimately survive, earn a loyal clientele, etc. Those kinds of vintage shops are more than just a junky place you visit the week before Halloween to buy 1970s shirts with collars so wide you could make an entire separate shirt out of them, for your fucking clown costume. Nice vintage shops sell stuff you’ll actually wear in real life. Portland has precious few of those. 

So, thesis: Many Portland thrift stores suck. THAT IS OUR OPINON OF THE DAY, thanks.