The love affair between white people and old stuff literally goes back for hundreds of years. In the older days, it was almost exclusively contained within the realm of furniture. While white people still love antiques, they don’t always fit so well with a modern lifestyle and kitchen.
Beginning in their late teens, white people begin an obsession with finding cool vintage clothing at local thrift shops and Goodwills. Making purchases at these locations address a number of white person needs.
First, it allows them to say “oh, this? I got this shirt at Goodwill for $3.” This statement focuses the attention on the shirt, taking attention away from the $350 jeans and $200 shoes. The white person can then retain that precious ‘indie’ cred.
Secondly, it allows a white person to have something that other white people don’t. This is an important consideration when trying to determine the worth and ranking of white people.
As white people get older, and the opportunities to wear a “Pittsburgh Special Olympics ’76” T-shirt diminish, they must move their vintage fetish from clothes to furniture and knick knacks. For a post-30 white person, the mention of a ‘vintage stove’ or ‘vintage card catalog” can send their imaginations racing about how to incorporate it into their current home decor.
By having at least one vintage, unique piece of furniture in a room full of Ikea, white people can still tell themselves that they are unique and cooler than their friends.
When you enter a white person’s home, you should immediately search for anything not made by Ikea, Crate and Barrel or Athropologie. Upon finding such an item, you should ask “where did you get that? It’s really cool.” The white person will then tell you a story about how they acquired it, allowing them to feel cool and giving them a reminder about their fantastic taste.
If you want white person to hate you forever, tell them you saw their one-in-a-kind vintage t shirt thingie at target or even worse, walmart!!
Also, white people love shirts that say things …
Sweet comment. So true! It will crush them almost as bad as saying their favorite author was selected for the Oprah book club.
Hi-larious.
Vintage diapers-especially USED-not so cool.
You can be sure that the vintage item has progressed to not being hipster anymore when it, or an imitation of it, has begun being sold at Old Navy.
It was hip until then, but Old Navy adoption of ironic clothing is the sure sign that every 13 to 18-year-old middle-American, non-biking, non-Prius-driving white person has gotten wise to your irony.
It has become non-ironic and much to easy for anyone to get so now it’s time to move on to the next ironic trend.
Again to my shame I saw that vintage retro antique repurposed bookcase and thought: “that’s just what I need for the bay window!”
And, don’t hate me, I’m going to get it too.
stuffblackpeoplelike – eating watermelon! hahaha!!!
stuffarabpeoplelike – pumping oil! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike – gang warfare! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike – eating beans! hahaha!!!
stuffchinesepeoplelike – shooting heroin! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike – welfare! hahaha!!!
stuffjewishpeoplelike – keeping money! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike – wearing sombreros! hahaha!!!
stuffchinesepeoplelike – eating rice! hahaha!!!
stuffarabpeoplelike – kissing goats! hahaha!!!
stuffmexicanpeoplelike – wearing sombreros! hahaha!!!
stuffblackpeoplelike – sniffing glue! hahaha!!!
aren’t i funny and clever!!!
don’t you dare call me a racist!!!
I’m white and I did go through a vintage period, back before many white people did, now it’s all expensive. White for saying that, I know. Lame.
ahahaha this is so true. I love my vintage shit; you should make one specifically on record players and records.
Oh no…
I am the whitest white person that ever was white.
Kill me now.
why does natalie say kill me now? you can’t really help what you are can you? and why should you want to change? if you like vintage/antique stuff hopefully you like them because you appreciate objects that have stories attached to them, that are you unique in this overly pre-packaged and consumerized world. hopefully its not just to show off and look cool and project a certain image. i’m half white, half hispanic and i like going to thrift shops too. and sometimes i do mix it with more expensive clothes or furniture but the reason i go is not to try to fit in with the indie crowd i just love the feeling of nostalgia I get from them. They remind me either of my own past, or stories my grandparents or parents or other family have told me about their past. they inject a whimsical or humurous feeling into any household that seems a little too prepackaged.
Haha… I’ve got every other white person beat on vintage:
I purchase vintage clothing patterns and make clothes with new fabric. This means that they are not smelly or falling apart. I also go a couple decades earlier than most of my peers who are busy revelling in the 70s and 80s I prefer the 40s/50s… this probably only makes me MORE white, wev.
All this stuff should be turned into a quiz so us white people can figure out exactly how white we are.
don’t forget to talk about antiques from other cultures that white people steel and try to sell back to us!
What about White people that buy the latest crap from Scandanavia all the time?
Scandanavia is incapable of producing crap. Too effing cold.
They shit Ice Cream.
learn the facts all-right?
Let’s don’t forget dem Flea Markets!
a white person buying a shirt a goodwill to distract one from $200 jeans is not exactly hitting the nail on the head. nor is their motivation to have something nobody else has. faded colors and fabrics have always looked cool and vintage is an aesthetic often enjoyed by black culture, too; consider the reemergence of fat albert and old school nikes.
your message here basically says that “white people are contrived” which is sometimes true but not always.
Cooler (therefore, “whiter”) than thriftshopping: Sample sale. Get cool stuff for dirt cheap & implies that the buyer has some kind of “connection” to get into the sample sale.
“Dude, where’d you get those (snowboard) boots.”
“Oh, I went to the Vans sample sale last week. I picked these up for $25.”
But wait! Let’s talk about the Vintage store snobs? Hello, you live in an upscale part of town and you going vintage? Let’s call it for what it is, you cheap bastards!!
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hehe…. white people like to write about the things white people like! This mild form of self-bashing is particularly white…
I’d like to add to this list the “white Indian” category of whites who can be found in places like Sedona. Whites who go to sweat lodges, dangle dreamcatchers from their Priuses, and embrace the culture that they helped to annihilate.
Here’s to White Indians !! Woo Woo Woo
#13, have you seen the really white vintage cool thing?
It’s a doll called Gene. She’s modeled after Gene Tierny and has very expensive 40’s style clothing sets that have their own names, like “Blossoms in the Snow”, “Stardust Memories” and
“Teatime at the Plaza”.
This doll has more crap than I’ll ever have. She has more cool stuff than Barbie could ever think of. I used to own one of these dolls because as a white girl I too love vintage things even if they aren’t old. But then I wanted to buy another bass guitar, so I sold my Gene collection to a girl in Taiwan on ebay and bought a “vintage” bass.
Ha ha ha!
any other white people really not feel any sense of responsibility for the actions of slave traders/colonists who died centuries before they were born?
any other white people really not feel any sense of responsibility for the actions of slave traders/colonists who died centuries before they were born?
watch out for that anthropologie peices! they can be deceptively vintage!
*those
I’m guilty of the white people vintage fetish.
I love thrift stores but typically draw the line at dumpsters.
Has there been a goth entry on here yet? I’ll have to do a search, how handy!
Also white people love Mardi Gras.
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#25 YES! Absolutely
Let me just add I used to wear vintage as a teen and young adult. AND I may still try to wear it BUT realize that most Vintage clothing is usually really small sizes so that may be in part why older people do not wear it. I mean I have seen some older people than me with some rockin bodies that could still sport the stuff. Look at the runways they are still sportin vintage and a lot of the beautiful people are early and late 40’s.
Furniture has always been a passion but I will admit I am drawn to the unusual and not the cookie cutter things that are produced for us.. though Target has some nice stuff. But with the way prices are with the new found addiction to everything old i certainly can not love it like I did nor can I justify it.
i steal stuff from goodwill…does that just make me a horrible person in general?
That is a Shocking use of a perfectly good Walnut or Mahogany Louis XV sofa frame. More stuff white people like,…old wood furniture.
Hey, I’m a (pass-for) white person, and everything I own is vintage, including my false teeth.
If only there was a market for vintage Ikea products. ebay maybe?
ikea has no vintage, the wrapping peels off and it all turns to shit.
Once again this doesnt represent all white americans much less white people. It brings to mind throw back jerseys.
William said:
“…nor is their motivation to have something nobody else has.”
WRONG! I love having clothes that no one else has. F-ing LOVE it.
Well if you are any color person you can find some really amazing VINTAGE stuff over at my blog/store, this is not an ad but just in case you are as described in this article!! White people are welcome also!
Cheers-
What a bunch of bullshit. Why don’t ya just hit yourself with barbed wire like those Islamic facists? You moron.
Never got why some white people like old shit, personally not a fan although I am a whitey
everyone, go to you tube and watch “hipster standoff”… i think it is relevant to this blog.
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Look here…
This site is mediocre at best. It is mildly entertaining. Half of the items on this list are garbage. The effort and thought put into this list is pretty embarrassing.
if you want some actual funny entertainment/blog/writing/insightful/great stuff
http://www.garbarrassing.com
go for it.
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i am always amazed at how much ikea “vintage” you can find on craigslist….almost calls for a special section for just that…
I love vintage lingerie. So much more glamorous back then. Bullet bras, long-line girdles, corsets and of course garterbelts and stockings.
It is always bought at used clothes shop
Flyclothing.com would survive without all the vintage loving whites!
lol. ya were desperate for heratige like that. I suggest all the white people re-aquent them selfs with Odin, its a far more intellectually honest way of connecting to the past.
But I know of people that DON’T have Ikea furniture in their home. They are more on the upscale end with what they have.
I buy fake vintage at tar-jahy! Fuck me, right! Oh well. I still think I am pretty white.
Hey Jake dont feel bad at least Target HAS fake vintage, probably why us whities like it better than walmart..hehe
Another thing , we like saying how much we LOVE Target and wouldnt be caught dead in WM
Well, I started getting thrift clothing because it was cheap and a lot of the good stuff actually doesn’t look that old or nasty. For me, it was more of a money saving thing rather than style, but I can see how a lot of whities would do something like that.
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Like….you know you’re white when…..
I have a laser disc player and a collection of movies that I keep because the laser disc uses no compression and so there are no compression artefacts in the resulting picture. I have “braveheart”, “ET”, “Fantasia” (in the five side CAV collection), “the abyss” and “time bandits” in a japanese/english bilingual edition.
I assert my whiteness and superiority by showing how my enhanced sensibilities far outstrip the feeble reproductions of DVD’s, and further extend my whiteness by having a laserdisc of the Takanaka “rainbow goblins” concert.
Vintage, obscure, japanese
Marvel at my whiteness, less than pallid mortals!!!!!!!
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i bought shoes from the nike vintage collection. not only did i buy them because they were vintage and “cool”, but they were on clearance, even better.
HA HA HA HA HA!!! So true
stealing from goodwill makes you awesome, not horrible.
and liking old shit is great, it means you’re not contributing as much to the production of more new shit.
that website is garbarrassing in and of itself. yuck.
I pooped my pants
I like vintage food. Vintage Mayonnaise and boneless chicken breasts are my favorite. Just last week I got a bottle of Kraft Ranch dressing with an expiration date of March 1977.
No one wants to eat at my place.
i dare to call you racist
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Hey, if it wasn’t for Old Navy, Daffy’s, Filene’s Basement and Target, someone in my income bracket could never afford the “vintage” look! Unless of course, I brought it in a souk outside Tangiers, in Morocco, while working in the Peace Corps! Instant Cred, booyah!
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All of my underwear is vintage.
Seeing vintage or antique items in a modern house hold is actually my pet peeve and I gladly crush white people’s spirits by saying how ridiculous and out-of-place it looks.
Another reason white people like target, its easier to make it sound French by saying it like that.
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This website makes me feel awful about being white. I just swallowed all of my anti depressants. I hope you are FUCKING HAPPY.
As an historian (white) of African-American culture, I can add a bit of historical context to the mix. As slaves, African-Americans were generally given hand-me-downs and cast-off clothing to wear. Many had only one dress or pair of trousers and shirt and they were ragged, worn out and drab.
As soon as they were free, Southern black ex-slaves made it a point to purchase or make the nicest, fanciest looking clothes in bright colors and extravagant designs in order to distinguish themselves from their depressing sartorial past. Dressing up was a fetish. Note: like white people, wealthier and more well-educated African-Americans would rarely dress in flashy clothes, preferring to maintain a dignified and conservative tone.
I have noticed, as a white person with a lot of black friends, that in general, African Americans like new things. They are horrified, though too polite to mention it, when I say casually “I got this at the thrift shop,” which, being white, I say all the time. I believe the attraction to the new is a hold over from centuries of not being able to have new things due to the financial and cultural pressures faced by minorities in the past (and often in the present), including poverty, lack of education and exposure to the “finer things in life.”
Unlike many whites of the type featured in this blog, they may not have had much to inherit in the way of furniture and knick-knacks and so must buy new anyway. Also, many are forced by financial considerations to buy cheaper goods, and of course, these items don’t last as long. It becomes a cycle in which they discard and buy new more often than those who can afford higher quality goods.
Hope this doesn’t sound racist; that’s one thing white people hate!
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I have a vintage Navy Peacoat from the actual Navy. I wear it all the time and say things like, “they just don’t make clothes of this quality anymore.
Yes you are a racist and have a small mind. Black people do not eat as much melon (and chicken!!!!) as white folk. Mexicans do not wear sombreros. But I have seen white folks driving the Prius. And they do love their breakfasts and vintage gear. What are living in the 1930s? Step into the 21st century why don’t you?
AHAHAHAHA
Does the kind of Stuff White People Like include things like
Justice, Equality, and Truth?
http://www.survival-international.org
haha i never felt so white until i saw this page
white people rulz!!!!
not the white people are rasist……the black people are rasist!………so get smart and live in present no in the past.
I WILL TRY THAT! UGH WHITE PEOPLE ARE SO ANNOYING.
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I call you stupid. Is that okay?
I like vintage therefore I must be white.
NOT!!!
The same goes for the rest of this ridiculous website. You have given me proof that although my skin is a medium brown and my hair is very thick and curly I must be a white person. Thank you for buying into generalizations and stereotypes. I hope that you are not making money off of this website.
hmm I am a very white rockabilly person who is 30 something and wants that book shelf very bad
why is old crap u get at goodwill considered vintage? it’s just old crap.
if i wear my sisters handmedowns, are they vintage?
no, they are somebody else’s used crap.
i love white people.
HAHA, yes they are, Sheila.
Apparently my skin pigmentation justifies my actions. likes, and dislikes.
The sad truth is, I actually do fall into most of these generalizations, especially the enjoyment of finding something vintage.
Man, I am not as original as I had previously perceived.
You’re so white I am surprised you even have a TV!
It’s ok to be white.
Just sayin’.
Yes, thanks for mentioning it!
Hell, I don’t just love vintage and retro, I AM vintage and retro. White people like referring back to the 60s and 70s, me included.
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White people are annoying?
Then why, pray tell, are you on a Web site called “Stuff white people like?”
Are you self-loathing, Sheila? (White people love that expression)
I have a Boy Scouts of America T-shirt from the early 70s that is highly coveted by every white person that has ever seen it.
It’s white with red arm and neck bands and a nicely faded BSA logo and stripe across the chest.
Perfect.
I also have an orange T-shirt from 1981 that says something about the innagural flight of some Puerto Rican airline and is nice and tightly contoured to my torso.
This shirt has gotten me laid on more than one occasion, because white girls love it.
The best thing about it is the fact that I don’t know how it ended up in my wardrobe, which white people love to tell other white people: “Yeah, honestly, this shirt just somehow ended up in my collection. I have no idea where it came from.”
Stealing from goodwill makes you the ‘wrong’ kind of white.
I am biracial (black/white). I absolutely love vintage and I have to admit that my appreciation for it comes from the extended family on my white side who would buy used even when they could afford new.
Hahaha, this is hilarious!! I happen to be Mexican, look white, and happen to enjoy my vintage stuff!! HA!
I have a lot of vintage stuff on display and by osmosis from my folks including 70’s stereo equipment(including a reel-to-reel), various furniture pieces, and a few old bicycles. But the next ‘vintage’ thing that I am actually going to be spending money on is a little more ambitious then an old bowling shirt. I’m in the process of finding a Ferrari 308 GTB in perfect condition as the Magnum PI t-shirt just ‘aint going to cut it.
If you add up all the ridiculous amounts of money white people on designer purses, tennis shoes, and would-be thrift store ‘vintage’ items at modern designer prices, most could have bought a vintage Porsche or Ferrari already. I could probably ebay half my ‘vintage’ crap and pick up one of each.
Not to mention the cred you have showing up to an ’80’s party’ in a rossa corsa 308….
Totally guilty as charged. And the thing about having something no one else has? Exactly. I have a vintage brown suede Jacket with the big wool collar and leather buttons from like ’67 and I do feel like the most original a-hole in the room when I wear it.
But now…for some reason I don’t feel original anymore. I’ve been found out, and all white people think this way!!
Dang it.
Caught me. I was somewhere in northern alabama the other day and there was a Unclaimed Baggage Store. Nothing but white people.
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Prepare to bow down! Some of my vintage stuffs are heirlooms! That’s right. Do the “We’re Not Worthy!” I am the whitest white chick of them all!!!!
The best is when you tell a white person you DON’T shop vintage and they immediately feel superior for being an indivdual,just like everyone else. The look of smug superiority is hilarious.
what does pallid mean?
Ive come on this to the conclusion that the reason white people like all of the shit on this website is the following:
If you got it like that why not experience more with your life.
Shit I golf, snowboard, rockclimb, mountain bike, live in manhattan, drive a fat asS bmw suv, fuck asian women, have plenty of black friends, got sweaters and motherfuckin t-shirts that I’LL wear on a plane to San FraCisco if I damn well fell like it. Shit Ill Even invite my lawyer to my beach house on a sunday for coffee maybe some tea while we read the fuckin New York Times. Yes the Liberal rag that sweats Barack Obama. After that we will indulge in some microbrews on my vintage sail boat.
When I get Bored ill travel the fuck where I want probably to snowboard somewhere usually Utah the whitest fuckin state there is. Ill take in some wine before I watch a film at sundance while I am there.
Just for a challenge I will go to a farmers market get some organic shit go home and order some sushi. You see I am trying to get in shape to run a fuckin marathon. After I finish the first thing I am going to do is shut of my i-pod loaded with free music, grab some bottled water and spark a fat mother fuckin spliff!!!!
YEAH I LOVE BEING AWARE OF DIVERSITY.
HOWEVER THE IRONY OF THIS WHOLE THING IS BEING WHITE FOR ME ONLY FOR ME!!! kICKS BIGTIME ASS!!
Fake post, your grammar sucks, your full of shit. Nice try you daft cunt.
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Once again people – It’s a joke, a farce, satire, irony… jeez, get a freakin’ sense of humor!
I AM special, damn it!
It’s not “your” it’s “you’re”.
Thank you, Joe John. My sentiments, exactly. Open Mind needs to just CLOSE!
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All my furniture is from Ikea. It’s just cause it’s cheap as hell and I’m ADD. Their stuff is bright and shiny and colorful. It distracts me and makes me happy. Sue me!
As I look across the room at my “vintage” 1968 Grundig combination stereo record player/glass-gold liquor bar, I shit myself laughing.
Dear Haley. Even you have no problem. IKEA can be unique too! I pride myself of my collection of ancient Billy bookcases. 90 cm’s wide. They just don’t make stuff like this these days 😉
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… a point beautifully articulated by the exact individual this website makes fun of.
its ok to laugh at yourself. i still think you’re cool.
Great blog, you’re so right !
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D: i’m hispanic, and i shop in vintage stores. i feel like such a white poser. D”:
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Sadly, vintage clothing only fits short, thin people.
Haha I love vintage to death.
My main three stores
Value Village
Goodwill
Target (not vintage, but damn cheap when it comes to shirts)
No shame. =D
Blah. Why don’t people who can afford to shop other places besides Goodwill leave those cute $3 shirts to be bought by people who actually only have $3 to spare.
you’re not alone.
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Did you put this on all of the posts? I’ve seen it elsewhere. It looked retarded there too.
stuffyourtypeofpeoplelike – making an ass of themselves! hahaha!!
If nobody’s suggested this yet, go to:
http://www.outofvogue.com
Great mid-century (1930-1970’s) vintage store in So-Cal USA (Fullerton to be exact).
Hey, some people happen to like paying hundreds of dollars for the honor of owning a pair of boxer shorts that some old tramp has died in!
Vintage….
another way of saying that one man’s trash,
is another man’s treasure….
the funniest bit is people paying $100+ for vintage clothes from popular indie clothes stores who just go round to other thrift stores, get the best items and jack up the prices 100%
Hey don’t knock it – you can find a good used chastity belt that way!
I kea sucks! its cheap crap, that for some reason think is acceptable.. weird
hey, this website is meant to be funny, don’t get offended
The only vintage thing I’m into are cars. I hate all this vintage clothing BS, which to be honest started with Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Yeah, you’re so cool for having jeans that were made back in the seventies (rolls eyes). Btw, my fully restored 1970 Hemi Cuda can kick you’re Prius’s ass and is worth about $90K. So suck on that you vegan, hippie, bleeding-heart moron.
White guitar players love vintage guitars, amplifiers, effects, etc. more than their spouses and children. No amount of money is too much to pay for a guitar from the 1960s…even one that was complete crap back when it was new, and that has not been improved by years of abuse.
Thats pretty funny. My fav magazine is cosmo and they are always doing that. They will have an article about where to buy afordable things, and show a pair of jeans for $350. Match it with a top that costs $900 and throw in an accessory thats “Vintage” for 2 bucks or something from forever 21. Vintage is just a fancy word for hand me down.
Vintage to a Red Neck:
Grandpas old 77 chevy and his boots.
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How wrong is it that I want that “bookshelf” in the picture and I want it NOW?
If it’s wrong, then I don’t wanna be right.
me neither…..>_<
lol.
OMG!! laughed so hard!… I needed a couch and got one out of my oma’s basement that’s been there since before I was born (’82). Its like that old 50’s green with the end tables like built into the actual couch/sectional/whatever-it-is… it even has like this built in console thing where I store ashtrays. Anyways… this thing is THE MOST uncomfortable piece of crap but everyone wants to party at my place because of it! Its hilarious watchin people sittin on this thing, and then complimenting it! cause I know that there is NO WAY that they are even comfortable. furthermore the thing is like falling apart and when I say I’m gettin rid of it I get totally yelled at!
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LOL. Yep, so guilty. I can’t help but crave those $4 sweaters. But I guess as a college student without a job, I turn into the ones with only $3 to spare? And besides, I hate the idea of decent things going to waste. I’d rather know someone is enjoying my old stuff than know it’s heaped on a landfill somewhere…
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Lol the same white friend i have who wants to move to san francisco is obsessed with having the most unwanted and least brought shirt/purse from urban outfitters. she thinks it makes her style unique. until i tell her everyone at my school shops there and think they are unique as well. than she starts talking about running away, leather shoes, and asian girls.And a white girl in my yearbook promptly stated how having a clear ziplock bag for all of her pens makes a much bigger statement than lets say, something from office depot. making a statement> quality.
Second time around nostalgia is where it’s at.. begged mom the first time around for the ugly members only jacket, now you’re buying them in one of every color, including teal, just because you can.
HaHa. So True! I keep trying to tell my people they stopped making clothes out of 100% polyester for a reason!
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I WANT A MILLION DOLLARS!!! Can one million RICH WHITE PEOPLE send me one dollar apiece, puh-lease????
I don’t want money from any Asians, or Blacks or Hispanics. You guys NEED your money. I only want one dollar apiece from RICH WHITE PEOPLE who seem to WASTE their money on old vintage stuff.
Waste it on me instead. Thanks so much! (First person who comments “You ARE a waste.” is a rotten egg. You thought it. I know you did. Stop lying. See? I knew it.)
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Yeah it is nice.
I just buy things at Gap that seem vintagesque like a good little white boy. Then my clothes don’t smell “vintage”.
Oh, the end of this is so good, the “good taste…”
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haha yeah that smell can a bit unnerving. I got scabies once from a vintage clothing store…I never bought used shit ever again. Take my advice white people.
Do vintage video games count? Because I keep hearing people raving about the new “punchout” on the Wii. Unfortunately, my broke ass never got to play either.
But I did just spend a 2 hour, asocial stupor playing pacman online. Does that count as vintage?
where is the IKEA listing? there is at least 20 pieces of furniture in the house from there.
Dont throw your furniture, clothes or reusable stuff away, give it to a bunch of wealthy white couples who have one working spouse. LoL, I always thought the poor of any race needed that stuff…and never thought I could make dough selling it. Damn it, there goes my vintage business idea.+
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Michael on August 16, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Sorry, that’s how I get through life. At work, in school and with other people. More of a Californian thing, if I wasn’t in the state of Cal. I wouldn’t be required to, then I’m one of those autistic nerds or something tries to get by in life. I’m a product of my own environment, middle-class people get down on their luck and have to face reality. I share this guy’s sarcastic sense of humor on how he perceives the world through a “white man’s” comical point of view. +
Autism, eh?
looks like you give this disability a bad name Michael D. Now it’s time to pay the piper autism boy.+
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You know, you’re supposed to wash used clothes BEFORE you wear them.
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I’ve been obsessed with vintage furniture and design (and not clothing) since I was fifteen.
What does that make me?
It makes you really cool. 😉
Honestly, most of the wood furniture made today is inferior in craftsmanship anyway, unless it’s handmade. And old stuff smells so nice!
White.
I just knew this would come on here. People throw the word ‘vintage’ around too much; just look at Hollister/Abercrombie. I’m pretty sure vintage is not super long shirts with a stupid bird or animal on the side.
Haha I have never had 350 dollar shoes or 200 dollar jeans
But I do have a love obsession with goodwill
and why not
Looking through thrift stores is like finding old treasures and its CHEAP
I guess Im a dutch white person
Juno’s cunt! What the hell is people’s obsession with wearing used clothing, I preferred it when thrift shops were the exclusive realm of poor people.
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Like Commodore B., I’ve loved “vintage” and “antique” stuff most of my life. I don’t know about other people, but I prefer “vintage” things for the following reasons:
1.) Reduce, reuse, recycle!
2.) I’d rather have good-quality used items them poor-quality new items (in this era of “planned obsolescence,” even expensive new items are often poorly made). This applies to houses, furniture, and sometimes clothing. . .but never to socks or underwear.
3.) Old houses and antique furniture are comforting in both the personal and political senses. When I sit in my grandmother’s chair or use her old pots and pans, I cannot help but think of my grandmother. Similarly, our old house survived World Wars I and II, and there is a faded Civil Defense sticker on the edge of the front door, listing the nearest fallout shelter. When I think about the negative historic events our house has survived, I feel saner living in “these times.”
4.) Aesthetics! (Here comes the “white snob” part of loving vintage and antique things.) I love our house’s original woodwork and other architectural details, even though it means living on the edge of what my very white mother calls a “not very nice” neighborhood. To me, it’s a lower-middle-class multicultural neighborhood where, unfortunately, there is some (usually nonviolent) drug activity. On a daily basis, I’m more bothered by the fact that too many children neighborhood children litter.
I suspect the reason that some Afro-Americans don’t like vintage stuff is because when they were children, they HAD to wear secondhand clothes. Growing up with older cousins and an older sibling, I sometimes wore secondhand clothes myself. My feelings about this entirely depended on how I liked the clothes: sometimes I wished my sister would hurry and grow so I could wear a particular dress, and sometimes I wish I’d been consulted before something was purchased. . .
I absolutley adore anything vintage. Clothing, furniture, houses, figurines, cars. I see from ‘Antique White’s’ point of view. It makes me seem more comforted, content and safe. Knowing the times my belongings went through, and they’re still here, running just as well as any ‘modern’ item would be. I don’t believe I enjoy antique items just because I’m caucasian, and I don’t foresee myself urging someone to enjoy these items just as I do. I believe vintage is an aquired taste, and isn’t meant just for formality.
Vulgar statements will get you nowhere in life my good fellow. Vintage clothing has nothing to do with obsession, and it isn’t always bought at a thrift store, or a goodwill. Rarely will you find anything literally clasified as vintage in any of the sort. Thrift stores are not meant for ‘poor people’, by which you classfiy poor people as people who cannot afford brand name clothing. Thrift stores are meant for everyone, and if you don’t see it that way, then I feel very sorry for you sir.
Vulgar statements will get you nowhere in life my good fellow. Vintage clothing has nothing to do with obsession, and it isn’t always bought at a thrift store, or a goodwill. Rarely will you find anything literally clasified as vintage in any of the sort. Thrift stores are not meant for ‘poor people’, by which you classfiy poor people as people who cannot afford brand name clothing. Thrift stores are meant for everyone, and if you don’t see it that way, then I feel very sorry for you sir.
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I love vintage! I love shopping thrifts, going to estate sells, attending auctions, rummaging anywhere I can looking for treasures. I’m not afraid of people knowing and it’s not something I’m afraid of saying out loud.
I have antique and vintage in my home. I wear vintage. I sew from vintage sewing patterns. I sell vintage. Really…it’s an obsession.
Did I mention…I’m black.
🙂
You sound a trifle over-assimilated.
What’s even funnier is that the larger corporations have noticed this trend, so they print “Billabong Beach ’82” t shirts and kids who werent even conceived until the ’90’s are flaunting it like its legitamite vintage.
But you have to remember: (true) vintage ANYTHING is better
Does a particular group have the rights on appreciating vintage? That’s my point.
Thanks for the post. Thats sound advice on how to thrift
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LOL I saw this blog on http://www.DanielDickey.com (The MTV VJ) and must admit it’s just as funny!!!
White people, well all people, also enjoy http://www.NakedHipster.com. Mainly because the girls are hot and don’t have clothes on. Usually those two things go well together. You know, the hotness and the nakedness.
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you forgot to mention how the white folk spend top dollar on a digital camera and all its accesories as well as the lastest version of Ps,then spend every moment of everyday taking pictures of red heads in vintage clothes that they then meticulously edit to creat polaroid-like effects,complete with sun flares,grain and white borders. Fucking white people!!
if I could like this, I would.
this is really true
im still in highschool but most of my clothing that ppl tell me that they love were anywhere from $3-$20. especially my one shirt i got from goodwill for $5 and all day i had ppl telling me i looked so indie and hot. i deffinently go out of my way to find anything vintage ❤
ha!! so freaking true. honestly, i found this page via my own perplexed google search of “white people vintage” in an effort to understand the phenomenon that i was sure i was seeing everywhere! looooove this post. seriously, why do so many white people (especially white women) spend so much time and money on dressing in dowdy clothes from a bygone era and then taking “vintage” photos of themselves? i wonder, do they get mad if they have to be in the picture with someone dressed in modern clothing, bc they ruin the “effect/illusion”? i am guessing this “vintage” photo trend is going to look every bit as dated and past-trendy in a few years as other trends. and then these hipsters will be pretty sad that they don’t have any non-ridiculous photos.
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I love this blog but it makes me feel terrible to be a white person. Especially since I see myself in just about every post… Boo.
That’s so true. I hate asking white people (especially the hipster/indie ones) a simple question like, “Where did you get that?” It almost always leads to some fantastic, whimsical, slightly exaggerated story….that if I repeated it to a friend would sound normal as hell. smh
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I’m white, and this is funny.. because it’s entirely true. Notice how many white people have antique stores and notice how many white people, especially young ones, try to be hipsters. This is funny. Funny because it’s true.
Being a farmers market loving, vintage clothes obsessed vegan who listens to indie music, adores ugly sweaters, foreign films, and writing, all I can say after reading this site is wow.
I never realized I was such a typical white person. It’s kind of disturbing.
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Re-enactments offer white people a tangible connection with the struggles our fore-bearers endured. This is especially important to assuage any left over guilt we may harbor from our shameful connection to slavery. The societies offer a unique outlet for white people interested in preserving their heritage while reminding themselves we must never repeat history – in quite the same fashion anyway. We plan year-round for these events, sewing authentic costumes, restoring artifacts, and meeting with our society groups. Staying in historic homes or inns while attending such events really adds to the cache that you are helping to preserve the most dignified aspects of historic white culture.
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I’m white, and I love all the old vintage/antique stuff, not because its”cool” or “retro” but simply because you can’t beat old fashioned workmanship, the detail and quality is much better than any crap that’s produced in an Asian sweat shop, that produces cheap, tacky crap, also, I like old English made stuff, like Australia, let’s face it, without white invasion, the land would only be used for eating grubs and rubbing sticks together, and last point: non “bogans” shouldn’t bite the hand that feeds.
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This is not a description of white people, but of hipsters of any color. I can say that the majority white people would not like much on this list besides maybe dogs. Most white people hate hipsters, and don’t like black people, either.
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