The founder of the denim label Still Here weighs in.
Author:Dara PrantPublish date:Apr 14, 2020My dad was a collector of vintage clothes of sorts long before it was cool. He's never thrifted, but he has waited over 30 years to wear a T-shirt from college, or gone decades without touching a button-down because, he claims, he's waiting for it to mature.
Mosseri inherited that very pair when she was five, and still has them to this day. "That was the beginning of my love for denim," she tells Fashionista over the phone, explaining that the ink stains and patches became a way for her father to share stories of his childhood. "I started collecting vintage jeans because I really loved how much memory they held and how it feels like the only piece of clothing that can hold that much value.
She eventually decided to do a trade show, where she caught the attention of buyers at Barneys. Mosseri spent the next year learning the industry and making sample after sample to perfect the fit of her jeans. She then used the gift money from her wedding to purchase the label's first production run.
Outside of New York City and online, she cites eBay as the vintage denim king. Additionally, she recommends taking a day trip to upstate New York or New Jersey and visiting vintage stores that have been around for 50 years. "They're so unpretentious," she notes. In other words, there are infinite creative ways to rework vintage jeans: "When you see something and you connect with it, don't think that just because it doesn't fit you the way you normally think jeans should fit, that you should not get them."
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