Sounds like you'll fit right in. Welcome to the Lounge fellow Ohioan
You can also check in here: http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?13888-New-Ladies-and-Gents-Step-Forward
I feel better when I am dressed decently and prettily, and I LOVE LOVE the styles of the 40's and early 50's. So, I dress in what I like and that happens to be at least heavily inspired by vintage things.
That's precisely how I would describe how deep my style goes. Friends and family have described walking into my house as walking into 1955. Actually, except for the television, laptop computer, and cellphone, it is! I didn't live in the 50's (my favourite era) but somehow I feel more comfortable with things from the past, or inspired heavily by the past, than I do with modern ones. It isn't just about dressing vintage - My mind is always there, as though I live in that time but find myself in the future somehow.
"Maybe that's the key to the whole thing, right there -- an Atavist or whatever you want to call it has a profound and continuing sense of being *in* the modern era, but not being culturally *of* it. It's more than just an aesthetic thing, it's an actual sense of disconnect."
That's precisely how I would describe how deep my style goes. Friends and family have described walking into my house as walking into 1955. Actually, except for the television, laptop computer, and cellphone, it is! I didn't live in the 50's (my favourite era) but somehow I feel more comfortable with things from the past, or inspired heavily by the past, than I do with modern ones. It isn't just about dressing vintage - My mind is always there, as though I live in that time but find myself in the future somehow.
I don't know if you feel this at all, but there is always an underlying sense of loss- almost like you went to bed in 1940 and you woke up in 2010 and you can't get back to where you really fit.
I will also mention that when it comes to us fellas, we "can" sometimes be a dime a dozen. But when it comes to a vintage look, it's really the ladies that stand out and look like a million bucks!
That's one reason why I love the vintage look for both men and women - Ladies look so feminine, and fellas look so masculine. I haven't seen a whole lot of men in a vintage look under 75, so they would never appear dime-a-dozen to me
Indeed, for a lady it's difficult to "be 30s" nowadays, but I consider myself a Golden Age lady in my mind!
I wear normal clothes unless it's formal. So "everyday clothes" are modern clothes, and formal clothes are vintage clothes