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HOT TICKET: IF you love vintage fashion, head to The Affordable Vintage Fashion Fair. With more than 40 stalls of vintage and handmade designs, the fair takes the pick of the best shops, online retailers and wholesalers. Stallholders come from all over the UK to sell everything from 1940s lingerie to 50s prom dresses.
We've gone vintage crazy at Fashion Statement Towers this week. This is partly because we've heard that there are lots of vintage fashion events coming up, and partly because we're feeling a little post-Christmas poverty coming on. We'll be blitzing the last of our cash at the Affordable Vintage Fashion Fair which is coming to Leeds on 26 January and Sheffield on 31 January.
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Ever wondered what the difference is between vintage, retro and secondhand? Wish you knew exactly which vintage pieces to look out for? In spectacularly lucky fashion, here with the answers and more is vintage guru Judy Berger, founder of The Affordable Vintage Fashion Fair and the UK’s biggest swapping website Whatsmineisyours.com. Just so happens she’s a greenmystyle.com fan. Lucky that!
As a lovely twist, the fair will be on tour, stopping off at 3 Northern cities, pleasing non-Londoners like myself no end. We have been promised around 40 stalls covering a multitude of decades, new designers, a mysterious ‘make your own’ stand and a vintage clothes swap event at Sheffield – a genius move only to be expected from the creator of one of my favourite vintage websites, www.whatsmineisyours.com . I’m thinking of covertly arranging a visit back home to go to there.
Forget the hoopla surrounding Stella's collection for Hennes, the latest shopping pursuit to take the fashion industry by storm is jumblesale-ing, an extention of the craze for vintage and antique market shopping. "The sort of person who now attends jumble sales has changed. It's no longer about older people visiting community halls" notes Judy Berger, fashion stylist and founder of the on-line clothes exchange, www.whatsmineisyours.com.
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Fashion designers might currently be keen on the styles of the 1980s, hence the return of the puffball skirt, stonewashed denim and leg-warmers, but that doesn't mean that we should forget the fashions of the 1970s.
If you fancy snaffling some second-hand bargains from the decade of kaftans, platforms and punk, visit Millennium Gallery's vintage event on Wednesday, hosted by The Affordable Vintage Fashion Fair company in conjunction with the Vivienne Westwood exhibition.
What is the Affordable Vintage Fair?
It's a vintage market with a twist! We set up vintage stalls in a bar with music and a seating area, you can socialise while you shop.
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"Those of us who live north of the Watford Gap believed this was an urban myth up until ex Selfridges stylist Judy Berger decided to showcase on-trend ex-trends salavatingly within our financial means. On July 30th, Berger and a team of carefully chosen stall holders pitched up at the Millennium Galleries (piggy-backing the Vivienne Westwood exhibit) and flogged everything from make your own jewellery booths to 1960s Mary Janes to brand new designs from exciting talents like Kelly Ewing. The result? A queue that snaked 3 rolls deep, designers calling in extra stock, and girls and boys looking all Agyness Dean and Jonny Borell leaving with entire outfits for less than £20.00."
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Shoppers can celebrate all things retro this weekend at a vintage fashion fair with a difference. Thousands of clothes and accessories, hats, shoes and bags - for both guys and girls - will be on sale for prices that wont break the bank, along-side some fresh new design talent.
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Well, the universities are back, so it's no surprise to see the return of the Affordable Vintage Fashion Fair.
Except this isn't a student-only event - anyone is welcome to browse the 40+ stalls selling vintage clothing from the 1930s to the 1980s. And if you head to the Sheffield event, there's also a vintage clothes swap, where you can exchange the clean/wearable vintage items you're bored of for anything else that catches your eye (as long as you grab it before anyone else).
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Sweet lord of all things glorious, The Affordable Vintage Fashion Fair is back. Hurrah! If the last one was anything to go by, this will be a triumph of good quality genuine vintage and hand made clothes for prices that we can all afford. There is going to be a fully licensed bar and the kind of market place atmosphere that has already made them a huge success in London.
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"I wanted to bring the spirit of Camden, Portobello, Spitalfields, to Leeds." Judy, who likes to mix vintage pieces with high street and designer labels, was a personal shopper for two years in London and now runs her own agency. She scoured the north of England to find around 24 top vintage clothing stalls for the first fair, asking stall holders to focus on affordable vintage.
IT was handbags at dawn for dozens of Sheffield fashionistas who swapped till they dropped.
It seemed one woman's trash really was another woman's treasure as Sheffield's Largest Clothes Swap got underway at the city's Millennium Gallery.
Women bagged themselves some real bargains swapping their unwanted threads for other women's cast-off's.
