Used to mean cheap and second hand. Now it seems to mean middle-class, bunting and cup cakes. This is all.
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Vintage
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midnight_rendezvous
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An Ex of mine was into her "vintage" clothes, cameras etc. It was all very pretentious in hindsight
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Vintage 10 years ago meant flea markets. Now you have this http://www.vintageatgoodwood.com/home.aspx
The Spanish
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the term has been gentrified, or at least middle class mum -ified.
keep calm and keep buying old tat
keep calm and keep buying old tat
Superphil
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It's a bit like the overuse of Retro, and seemingly that now many people use it as a term for something old, or 'Vintage'.
The Spanish
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see i always think of retro as more sixties/70s sort of north laine type who dresses like the fella off the big bang theory. all old airline bags and monkees haircuts.
vintage is accurately summed up by herr tubthumper as yummy mummies with bunting and cupcakes. more a 40s/50s thing.
vintage is accurately summed up by herr tubthumper as yummy mummies with bunting and cupcakes. more a 40s/50s thing.
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I agree. And it used to be people just doing their thing; now it's an industry marketed to middle-class types who want to pre tend they're really really different and free thinking.
The Large One
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Vintage is a reference to wine - usually a crop making fine wine.
Err no. A Vintage wine means just the opposite.
Blimey, I know words change their meaning over time but I never knew 'vintage' ever meant cheap and second hand, as far as I was aware it always meant old, exclusive and expensive. Vintage Champagne, vintage cars, etc
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I didn't mention wine. TLO did.
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Fair point. Maybe my context wasnt clear? In terms of household items, furniture and clothing it, IMHO, has meant attic sales, flea markets, jumble sales etc. This is the vintage I was referring to. Folk would pick up old shit from these places and call it vintage. Now it's a very different scene.
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What about thinking? Someone once accused me of having "vintage thinking." I took is as a compliment, the following "you ****" was taken as an insult though.
Tricky Dicky
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Vintage has never meant "cheap". If anything, something with the tag vintage on it, would be marked up in price
Eh? A vintage wine is just a wine made from grapes all grown in the same year.
MattBackHome
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Egregious used to mean 'outstandingly good'. Now it means (pretty much) the exact opposite.
The Large One
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... denoting a higher quality.
As far as I have ever been aware, 'vintage' has never meant 'cheap or second-hand'. It might to in HT's universe, but never mine. Interesting manipulation of the language.