Vintage and Handcrafted Makers Market debuts on Saturday - Vallejo Times-Herald

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• Vintage and Handcrafted Makers Market debuts on Saturday - Vallejo Times-Herald
• Vintage apparel store opens at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront - The Virginian-Pilot
• ‘Unique, different, and cool’: The rise of vintage clothing shops in SLC - ABC 4

Vintage and Handcrafted Makers Market debuts on Saturday - Vallejo Times-Herald Posted: 30 Apr 2021 12:12 AM PDT There have been a lot of stories about how "hot" the Vallejo real estate market is, and many "ex pats" are moving here from the East Bay and San Francisco. That partially means that plenty of creative people who have been priced out of their apartments and homes are coming to the "Up Bay." It also means that the time is ripe for a vintage and makers market to pop up here as well. Yes, it's time for the Vallejo Vintage and Handcrafter's Makers Market on Saturday. Enter Maria Maddry, who has made her mark here with her mother Kathy by operating The Dillon Bread Company for years. But Maddry is also an artist who creates beautiful things from found objects and interesting paper. Her workshop, Studio Tableaux, is in the same complex as her bakery, and it is chock full of curios — everything from vintage chenille bedspreads to jars of buttons, dominos, feathers, sea glass and even Scrabble tiles. "This is my entire life," she says, showing off her collection of found bird's nests. She points to the first one she found as a child, up through ones she has found with her son here in Solano County. The nests are arranged under glass, with ribboned messages attached. A few have robins-egg blue and speckled white eggs inside. One nest was built next to a horse pasture and contains swirls of horsehair. Maddry combines her finds of old magazines, letters, photos, feathers and books into gorgeous hand-made journals. She even sews the paper onto pages, with collage and other ephemera to create one of a kind keepsakes. She will be selling her things along with several other vendors (16 people and 12 booths) on Saturday. "My grandparents were antique dealers," she says, as her adorable son Zane retrieves various artifacts from her stash and holds them up for us to see. "I grew up among antiques and collectibles and they lived in a Victorian in Benicia. It was a perpetual revolving door of interesting things." That revolving door of a passion for unique objects has led Maddry to connect with other antique and vintage enthusiasts in town, such as Mary Van Note, who's house is a veritable museum of interesting and beautiful old things, and Sarah Cain, who also collects vintage items. Van Note works in marketing and lent her hand to the promotion of the fair, and Cain applied her skills as an event manager (she is one of the founders of NightMare Island, a perennial Halloween mainstay here until the preserve closed and the pandemic hit). The result will be a treasure-hunter's dream, with folks selling items that include but are not limited to vintage housewares, furniture, Longaberger baskets, pottery, Wedgewood and Lenox samples, plant-based skincare products from Andrea Apothecary, naturally dyed clothing, frontier crafts, vintage textiles, jackets made from vintage quilts, and a lot of vintage clothing. Van Note will be selling items from her vast collection of vintage clothes from the 1920s to the 1990s. Cain will be selling vintage clothing and housewares but also will be there representing her business, Muddle Me This, where she teaches people how to make their own liqueurs, which she will also have on hand for sampling. "I'll be giving two-for-one coupons to my classes," says Cain. "It's an excellent Mother's Day gift. Take a class with your mom, you're the reason she drinks!" Zane will represent as well, as he runs the lemonade and treat stand, featuring Snickerdoodles and cinnamon rolls. Everyone involved is hoping that people will come out, as it is one of the first events that Vallejo has held in a long time. Social distancing and masks will be required, but it is open-air. "I know I've been missing antique fairs so much," said Van Note. "I've always kind of wished that Vallejo had one. I hope this is a successful event so we can be motivated to do it again as a fun Vallejo thing." Maddry agrees. She hopes to make it a bi-annual event, with one in Spring/Summer and then another in Fall/Winter. The list of the vendors are as follows: Maria and Kathy Maddry with a "vintage jumble of furniture, fabrics, notions, hardware and ephemera; Colleen Smith with an "eclectic mix of collectibles, vintage Longaberger baskets and pottery; Trish Gonzales with vintage home decor, Kathy Green with major manufacturer samples from Wedgewood, Lenox, Handmade Brand, Villeroy & Boch, and Royal Doulton featuring china, flatware, and glassware; Linda Barngraff, with vintage and eclectic treasures, Falin Minoru with unique tiki-inspired glassware (tikikaimuki.com), Sarah Cain with vintage home and accessories as well as her Muddle Me This liqueur samples; Andrea Raynor with her plant-based skincare line, Andrea Apothecary, Kristen Lucas' Naturally Dyed Designs, Audrey Onesta with vintage clothing and textiles as well as frontier craftswoman items, Megan Kiskaddon with jackets and clothing made from vintage quilts, Mary Van Note from Up Bay Vintage with vintage clothing and goods, and Melanie, Tess-Marie and Eileen from Vintage Style Council with vintage clothing and accessories. The Vallejo Vintage and Handcrafted Makers Market takes place on Saturday, May 1, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the parking lot at 451 Ryder St., off Sonoma Boulevard. Admission is free.

Vintage apparel store opens at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront - The Virginian-Pilot Posted: 29 Apr 2021 06:36 AM PDT [unable to retrieve full-text content]Vintage apparel store opens at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront  The Virginian-Pilot

‘Unique, different, and cool’: The rise of vintage clothing shops in SLC - ABC 4 Posted: 19 Apr 2021 12:00 AM PDT (ABC4) – To find a new look, many locals are turning to old styles. Several vintage clothing stores in the Salt Lake City area are saying they're busier than ever nowadays. "It's super noticeable, just within the last two years," says Paul Curtis who owns Vantage Clothing, a reused clothing store located downtown, of the renewed interest in vintage threads. Curtis is right about the recent uptick in interest for used clothing. A Statista study of monthly active users on the popular used clothing app, Depop, shows a significant increase from 2017 to now. Another study shows that of the current user group, 48.4% are from ages 20-29, with an addition 34.6% under 19. Younger fashion-seekers clearly like the look of used clothing. Even some of the most powerful figures in high-end fashion think that this is not just a trend, and could be the future of the clothing industry. Virgil Abloh, who works as the artistic director for Louis Vuitton's menswear line in addition to being the CEO of his own label, Off-White, sees vintage and used clothing having major staying power. A rack of clothes at Vantage in downtown Salt Lake City (Courtesy of Paul Curtis) "In my mind, how many more t-shirts can we own? How many more hoodies? How many sneakers? I think that like we're gonna hit this like, really awesome state of expressing your knowledge and personal style with vintage – there are so many clothes that are cool that are in vintage shops and it's just about wearing them. I think that fashion is gonna go away from buying a boxfresh something; it'll be like, hey I'm gonna go into my archive," Abloh told Dazed & Confused Magazine in December 2019. Curtis thinks a variety of reasons are influencing the younger generation's attraction to reused clothing. "I think it's probably a mix of younger generations being more conscious of their actions with the environment and their consumers. What I've noticed, and also just the style, the style of 80s and 90s is super in right now," Curtis tells ABC4. It's no secret that new clothing can come at an enormous cost in both materials and human labor, according to Scientific American. The publication reported that the Global Fashion Agenda estimated around 21 trillion gallons of water went into making new clothes in 2017 alone. How much water is your 'curb appeal grass' wasting? What happens to new clothes after they are no longer desired can also be detrimental to the environment. The Environmental Protection Agency estimated that Americans put more than 21 billion pounds of clothing and footwear into landfills in 2015. Labor conditions in overseas factories are also commonly known. A rack of reused clothes at Swish SLC's pop-up shop. Aside from being more eco-friendly, Paul and other used clothing enthusiasts think that the look is unique, different, and cool. "Growing up, I never wanted to just go buy some stuff that every other kid could go by, and I think it probably had to do with just wanting to stand out when I was growing up and looking up to people who were like also just going to thrift stores and such," Paul says of his days as a youth in Portland, Oregon. New Google Earth time-lapse feature shows effect of climate change While Vantage boosts one of the city's largest selections for used clothing, other smaller clothing sellers are finding ways to spread the movement. Austin Malichanh works the counter at his reused clothing pop-up shop, Swish SLC. Austin Malichanh owns Swish SLC, a clothing pop-up store that operates on Saturdays only at the Hip-Hop Education and Resource Center on State Street. Malichanh started his business by posting his used clothes for sale on an Instagram page. His following got large enough that he was able to open his own storefront, with help from the center. To keep his store stocked on the weekend, Malichanh makes it a routine to hit up as many thrift stores as possible throughout the week. He's learned what sells and what doesn't with experience. 10 words only Utahns use "It comes with putting in time, because once you go out for the first time, you don't really know what you're looking for. But after a while, you get used to looking for tags and stuff and you don't really need to look things up while you're at the store, because a lot of times, you could just look up a certain piece online and they're like 'Oh, it sure sells for whatever.' Then, after a while, you could kind of just price things on your own and know what it's worth by looking at it," Malichanh tells ABC4. Paul goes through a similar process, but also explains that he often buys clothes wholesale at warehouses packed to the ceiling with unwanted shirts, pants, and shoes. He says the amount of clothing that he can pick from is staggering. "There are already so many clothes out there, there's definitely plenty to be reused," Paul says. "There's no reason why people should be buying new clothing."

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