“Vintage”, what does it mean? After yesterday’s discussion of “retro” I wanted to share with you what I discovered about the term Vintage. Vintage is not reproducing an item as we found retro to be but rather an actual item from the past, made in a prior era and “being brought out of storage or the closet, or wine cellar” so to speak to sell in today’s marketplace.
I loved how one definition I found that summed it up very simple, “Second hand, damaged and EXPENSIVE!”
The truth of the matter is if it is real “vintage” it might have all of those adjectives apply. Someone else has used it, making it second hand and possibly damaged or soiled; if there is a limited supply available and/0r was expensive in it’s original time period, very likely it will be expensive today. So we cannot create “vintage” today we can imitate it and that is okay as long as the seller says it is a reproduction not the real deal.
I had to laugh to myself thinking if I should every remarry I might fit into the “vintage” category as I would surely fit all of these adjectives, second hand, damaged and expensive so I think in the future I will tell people I am a vintage woman not a senior citizen. Well as my kids would say that last line might be TMI, too much information Mother:)
Moving along, vintage wine and vintage cars are the most traded items in the vintage category.
For $539.00 you could purchase this vintage French Charles Heidsieck, Charlie 1981, from Champagne, France. 
A little more than I would want to pay!
Or perhaps you would want a vintage vehicle? For only
$22,000 you can have:
1930 Chev Wagon!
Perhaps some of you already knew all this detail, but I am willing to admit it was to a large degree new information to me and I found it interesting and enlightening. I will be more thoughtful when I use the terms vintage and retro in the future, well perhaps except when I speak of myself, I intend to get some smiling mileage out of those adjectives.
