{"id":11644,"date":"2015-09-05T14:57:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T14:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/putthison-backstory-on-the-birth-of-vintage-i\/"},"modified":"2015-09-05T14:57:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T14:57:30","slug":"putthison-backstory-on-the-birth-of-vintage-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/putthison-backstory-on-the-birth-of-vintage-i\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"540\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F160671985&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;visual=true&#038;show_comments=false&#038;color=false&#038;show_user=false&#038;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/putthison.tumblr.com\/post\/128366434478\">putthison<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><b>Backstory on the Birth of Vintage<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>I really enjoy the public radio show Backstory, about American history. It\u2019s hosted by three genial college professors from Virginia, and each episode explicateds a theme. A great recent show was about fashion in American history. There were fascinating segments on <a href=\"http:\/\/putthison.com\/post\/274849373\/zootsuitriots\">the Zoot Suit Riots (which might more accurately be called the Sevicemen\u2019s Riots<\/a>) and on the acceptance of beards in American culture\u2026 but the most interesting might have been the one that told the story of the birth of vintage clothing.<\/p>\n<p>It happened when a bohemian couple in New York in the 50s were at a dinner party, talking about raccoon-fur coats, which had been a fad among college men in the 20s. They\u2019d acquired one at a thrift store, and a few people at the party wanted one for themselves. Soon, they\u2019d bought a warehouseful, which had sat unsold for thirty years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not long after that, a magazine feature on the trend appeared, and the fad sprang forth anew. The couple became the first vintage dealers in the United States &#8211; selling old clothes not despite their age, but because of it.<\/p>\n<p>The whole story is above, and it\u2019s fascinating.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>putthison: Backstory on the Birth of Vintage I really enjoy the public radio show Backstory, about American history. It\u2019s hosted by three genial college professors from Virginia, and each episode explicateds a theme. A great recent show was about fashion in American history. There were fascinating segments on the Zoot Suit Riots (which might more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-audio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-31O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}