Vintage clothing (Topical Term)
- Antique clothing
- Antique fashions
- Fashions, Antique
- Vintage apparel
- Broader heading: Clothing and dress
Work cat.: McCormick, T. A consumer's guide to vintage clothing, c1987 (Author is also the editor of "The Vintage Clothing Newsletter.")
LC database, Aug. 29, 1988 (vintage clothing, vintage fashions)
Hennepin (prefers antique to vintage, as in Antique airplanes, Antique automobiles. See ref. provided.)
Web. 3 (vintage: marked by advanced age)
Random House (vintage: representing the high quality of a past time; old-fashioned or obsolete)
Love, H. Harriet Love's guide to vintage chic, c1982: p. 1 (vintage clothing, vintage apparel)
IAC; Fairchild's dict. of textile terms, 6th ed; Thesaurus of textile terms
Here are entered works on old clothing, usually 20th century, which is purchased, reproduced, or collected because it represents a bygone fashion era and a quality of workmanship not always found in contemporary clothing.