Got up early this morning to watch some inspirational videos on YouTube and just be in the magical world for a while – and I started thinking again about what it is that really attracts me to clothing and accessories that were designed, made and worn decades ago.  I always talk about quality and workmanship and elegant design that set true vintage apart from almost everything that is sold today, but what’s deeper underneath those things?  As Rhonda Byrne explains in her second book, The Power, it is LOVE.

Love is not just what we usually think it is (hearts and flowers, sex, even kind acts and caring for others) – it is passion and joy and desire and inspiration and happiness and  excitement and value and conviction and ideals and what everything that is most important in your life means to you.

 When these vintage items were designed, made, sold and worn, they were elegant and beautiful visions in the minds of designers, pride and self-reliance in the people  who manufactured the materials needed or actually put them together with their own hands, and the hopes and dreams of the women and men who bought and wore them because each purchase was a special event.  Their clothing was well cared for, loved and kept for many years, like the memories that were attached to them.  Each piece is like a classic film that has a big story behind the making of it and tells a big story just by being what it is.  

What’s not to love about that?!   Maybe I should get up at 3 a.m. more often. . . . . . . .

Morgana Martin, the magicvintagespy

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