Are you still needing to be home a lot, as I am? Or do you need some inspiration to try out some new things with your vintage?
Here’s a month of mostly small ideas. I want to know if you try any of these (especially number 26!).
1. Find a new place to wear a brooch.
3. Fall under the spell of vintage jewelry ads.
5. Change out boring buttons on a modern shirt, coat or dress with vintage buttons. If you need to find some, try searching “carded vintage buttons” on Etsy.
6 Mix and match eras—mix if you usually match, and match if you usually mix.
7. Discover your new favorite lounge wear.
8. Hang a vintage item you keep forgetting you have somewhere obvious.
9. Try wearing a fancy robe, house coat or shirt dress over another item. No unitaskers here!
10. Try on hats virtually and get ideas.
11. Make a Pinterest board of your favorite vintage looks.
12. Try a visible mend on something that can’t be fixed invisibly.
13. Join a discussion.
14. Wear something vintage you haven’t worn for awhile, and ask yourself why not?
15. Start a display of some of your favorite vintage fashion items.
16. Mend one thing. Threads magazine online has many good quality tips and tricks.
17. Organize your closet by color.
18. Pattern mix: Stripes and dots, leopard and tartan, floral and check.
19. Wear a cardigan backwards, as girls did in the 1940s to 50s.
20. Add a pop of color to a neutral outfit. Shoes, brooch, scarf…
21. Try layering your vintage.
22. Wear a vintage hairstyle for a vintage hat. These look kinda difficult, but beautiful.
23. Add a belt.
24. Make vintage button jewelry.
25. Got a friend who loves vintage? Give them a virtual tour of your closet, and have them choose an outfit for you—then do the same for them.
26. Polish a pair of shoes. Try using the inside of a banana peel! (I can’t promise it will work, but this method has a certain amount of fans—and it made some vintage red leather clogs of mine look clean and glossy without any stickiness.)
27. Wear complementary colors.
28. Vacuum the area (a closet perhaps) that has your vintage clothes in it. This helps keeps critters away.
29. Have a look at some cool closets.
30. Come up with one go-to outfit using vintage, something you know you can rock instantly.
Extra credit:
31. Let me know what other small things you can think of to do with your vintage.