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Vintage to Vogue Home will now be known as “V2V,” the Observer reports, and will offer clothing as well as home furnishings. “You can find your look,” the owner says. “‘This is me on the weekend,’ or, ‘Totally me at the cottage.’” Or, she might want to add, “Totally me at the LoFT.”
or “Totally Me in debtors’ prison” (if I shop there)…
posted by OFW insurgent on February 24th, 2005 at 5:32 pmOr “Totally me getting tear-gassed at an anti-KKK rally.”
posted by Dave on February 24th, 2005 at 6:19 pmBack in my day, vintage shops used to be called the Salvation Army….:)
posted by Kozzie on February 24th, 2005 at 8:06 pmAh, vintage. What people do when they want to symbolize that they know what used to be cool…
posted by js on February 25th, 2005 at 12:55 pmHey, I LIKE vintage clothing. It’s a hell of a lot cheaper than buying new, and also more interesting than walking around in the same damned Steve & Barry’s t-shirt and North Face jacket everyone else is wearing. $18 cowboy boots and $12 shirts? Don’t mind if I do… and much more efficient than the hours spent weeding through Value World (though if you’ve got the time, that often comes up with some good finds for even cheaper).
posted by Brandon on February 25th, 2005 at 1:46 pmI know a major political figure who shops for her clothes at Value World and garage sales.
Of course, she then pays probably many times the purchase price to have them altered to fit perfectly.
posted by Larry Kestenbaum on February 25th, 2005 at 4:04 pmTeresa Heinz-Kerry?
posted by Brandon on February 25th, 2005 at 4:37 pmI’ve got the time for Value World–and I do find that it’s cheaper. I bought a pair of wool pants from Vintage Clothing or whatever it’s called on State and I think I wore it twice.
Each place I’ve lived in over the past two years, I’ve gotten someone else’s Observer. April From, if you’re reading this, cancel your subscription (or get it routed to your new address)!! I’ll be upset not to get my insider’s view on all the happenin’ stuff that goes on in this great and impeccably progressive metropolis, but I’m starting to find that the guilt is keeping me up nights. Reading someone else’s Observer… what kind of disgusting freak am I?
posted by Lazaro on February 25th, 2005 at 6:14 pmThis is kind of offtopic, but the state of Wisconsin has the best thrift stores I’ve ever been to, and I’ve been to plenty from Chicago to Toronto to Ithaca and NYC. I spent a spring break there a couple years back, and I was literally exhausted by the end of it just from the thrifting. So good.
Anyhow… I’ve been in that store once. Sort of frightens me, the combination of cost and unnecessary and frankly, not that terribly well/uniquely designed, consumer goods. Ann Arbor’s getting better at that these days. Or, as a Ferndale residin’ resident told me once: “Ann Arbor is liberal only in ideology, not practice. They can’t call themselves all inclusive when no one can afford to live there.” I guess we should add status symbols on top of the cost of livin’.
posted by Jen on February 25th, 2005 at 9:56 pmGo to Value World in Ypsi, not A2. Bigger store and selection, and hasn’t been picked over by students…
posted by Dave on February 26th, 2005 at 2:22 pmWhen did “Value Village” become “Value World”?
posted by Anna on February 26th, 2005 at 10:17 pmThere’s a furniture chain called Value World, and they won the copyright war a couple of years ago. My wife does the alterations for “a” local political figure, and s/he does buy a lot of clothes there, but mum’s the word. Some people get everything they wear there (ahem…)8^)
posted by Michael McC. on February 28th, 2005 at 7:58 amFrom what I gathered when they changed their name in print, the folks that own the former Vallue Villages around here also owned a set of much larger stores that were called Value Worlds. The Villages came first, then the Worlds were supposed to be the same thing, but bigger. They existed at the same time for a while, then the owners simply changed the rest of their stores into Value Worlds (at least in part because it made book-keeping easier, or that’s what they told us).
posted by js on February 28th, 2005 at 12:36 pmFrom what I gathered when they changed their name in print, the folks that own the former Vallue Villages around here also owned a set of much larger stores that were called Value Worlds. The Villages came first, then the Worlds were supposed to be the same thing, but bigger. They existed at the same time for a while, then the owners simply changed the rest of their stores into Value Worlds (at least in part because it made book-keeping easier, or that’s what they told us).
posted by js on February 28th, 2005 at 12:36 pmSo, just so you know, Vintage to Vogue (or V2V) is not actually a vintage clothing or furniture store. Its all new. Sorry to ruin that for you. And the Teresa Heinz-Kerry thing cracked my shit up.
posted by Previous V2V Employee on February 28th, 2005 at 9:10 pmMaybe my mind’s in the gutter, but V2V justs screams “vag to vag” to me.
I’m not sure if it’s the rise of professional ebayers, my own slack, or a resurgence in popularity of thrifting, but my favorite places have been super picked-over for the last several months. I do have some good leads on places in Detroit though- time for a road trip.
posted by Alexandra S. on March 3rd, 2005 at 12:16 pmIt may also be because of the growing income disparity in the US…
posted by js on March 6th, 2005 at 7:43 pm