Vintage Friends

[ShooShooBaby]

i'm lucky enough to have a small handful of IRL vintage friends in my city. i keep meeting more!

 

[flat-top]

Yes, literally dozens of them! And I know about a hundred or so more, that are not close friends. We have a huge community of vintage people out here in the Bay Area. All kinds, from Renaissance to Rockabilly.

Here's some of us...

So come visit me! I'll introduce you!

Ah yes, California is THE place for vintage living! I once considered moving there just because I knew I'd always have something cool to do!

 

[Solid Citizen]

West Coast VINTAGE

Hey, why do you guys
have all those COOL
vintage events????? [huh]

Solid Citizen

 

[Spitfire]

No - all my friends are normal

 

[Snookie]

I've got 2 sets of "vintage" friends, my dancing friends and my FL friends. I see the dancers more often, but here's the funny thing: most dancers anymore that are into vintage are guys! At least here in LA. And that's the main reason I'm on the lounge, so I can get my girlie vintage fix.

I've got a couple girlfriends who are into vintage, sewing, and dancing, my 3 favorite pastimes, but they live too far away. :cry:

I'm blessed though, that my husband is my No.1 vintage friend.

 

[David Conwill]

I'm pretty tight with my grandmother, she was my age in 1941. Does that count?

If not, no, I'm a voice in the wilderness. I'm not really vintage either, though, more like "classic." I never have the luck to find vintage stuff I can afford, or the dough to buy the vintage stuff I can find. At least as far as clothes go. Cars, parts, and housewares are another story.

-Dave

 

[Rachael]

I too have several groups of 'vintage friends'. There's the Civil War Reenactors, the Regency Society, and the other odder groups that are more free-form in the accuracy department. I used to belong to a Ladies' Tea society but it got a little bit too close to a Jr Auxiliary for the Red Hat Society so I've let that one lapse.

Some people overlap into more than one of these groups, and those are my fast friends. No Golden Era specific groups, although most of us wear this era day to day since it seems rather modern considering the other wardrobes we have hanging in the closet.

 

[DecoDahlia]

I guess that I can count myself among the lucky ones, as almost all of my friends are into the vintage lifestyle, even my friends from college/university are interested in history, so they don't think my interests unusual, even if they don't wear vintage clothes. I also have friends outside of Los Angeles/California who are vintage people. I suppose that location partly determines whether or not, if, you can find people who are into vintage, while, as Miss 1929 said, there are tons of us in California, both Northern California and Southern California.

 

[Smuterella]

none, none, not a single one. poor me.

 

[alexandra]

I don't believe in friends.

 

[Charlie Noodles]

I don't believe in friends.

Poor you, then.

 

[Slim Portly]

Sadly, no. I was into the Ren Faire scene for many years but changes in relationships and geography have left me a lonely sail on an empty sea. I do hope to make it to a Lounge party in the L.A. area as soon as I can, though.

 

[alexandra]

Poor you, then.

Oh thanks! Posting a picture of Jimmy Stewart, my one true love, even though he's dead! Way to rub it in!

*sob sob*

 

[sixsexsix]

lone wolf

 

[miss_elise]

nope... not many about here

 

[i_am_the_scruff]

None.

 

[DerMann]

People think I dress too "formally."

 

[MissHannah]

none, none, not a single one. poor me.

That can easily be remedied Smuterella
Roll on 11th July and the London Ladies night out says I.

 

[Mojito]

I dragged my best mate into it - now she has a few 1920s vintage dresses, has decided she needs a 1930s bias cut satin dress for our upcoming Singapore trip, and we're back to the Napier Art Deco festival next year.

My very talented mother not only has an interest in everything I buy, she's talented with repairs to vintage clothing.

Quite a few of my workmates are into vintage, although not the same era - they form the nucleus of the Sydney "Frock Club". Must be somthing to do with the fact we're all in the museum and arts community. We hold a small event every month or so. Both vintage and vintage inspired are encouraged.

 

[Fleur De Guerre]

I have a few friends who are into more rockabilly styled retro, but they aren't close close friends. I am looking forward to meeting the London ladies though as I think we'd get on like a house on fire!