Why choose vintage?
Vintage has a soul & past life that links us to a colourful history of individual stories and moments in time. Each piece has a unique charm, character and beautiful heritage.
Love is all around…Buying and investing in Vintage and antique clothing and accessories is mother earth loving.
Buying vintage is a sustainable choice that is more eco-friendly than buying mass produced fast fashion
garments and accessories that are generally made cheaply and produced on mass. In the time before mass-produced fast-fashion vintage clothing and accessories were crafted to last years and even decades incorporating much higher quality manufacturing and fabric use and specific design detailing. You simply can’t beat original vintage quality!
Fast fashion creates more than 1 million garments every day.
You can create a unique, individual and affordable wardrobe as vintage encourages individual and creative flair whilst holding long lasting value.
In one month alone, the carbon footprint of new clothes bought in the UK was greater than flying a plane around the world 900 times.
73% of the clothes produced globally ends up in landfill.
In the UK we buy more new clothes per person than any other country in Europe.
If the number of times a garment is worn were doubled on average Greenhouse gas emissions would be 44% lower.
10 times more carbon is saved by reusing clothing instead of recycling and creating new clothes.
Fast fashion often has human exploitation at its core.
Half a million tons of plastic microfibers are dumped into the ocean every year, equivalent of 50 billion plastic bottles.
The fast pace of mass production of ‘fast fashion’ is depleting natural resources, polluting the environment and contributing to climate change, putting many of the world’s poorest people at risk.