Classics Never Go Out of Style

Thursday April 21^st , 2016

There was a little party, (not really) it’s Kartini Day celebration for my Cross Cultural Understanding class.  In that event we wore a costume, each person must have one. All of my friend’s busy to prepare it. Most of them asked me about what kind of costume that I’ll wear on Kartini Day. I just said to them “I still have no idea about that”. Then I start to search about an Interesting, or Unique costume. Then I found an article about Fashion. I start to read it, very carefully and found something interesting. “Fashion has it’s own meaning”

I start to talk to myself, “Just wear anything you like, anything that make you comfortable, and make you looks great. Do not listen what other people said” Then I choose to wear Vintage-style for my costume.  I’m ready yet afraid to attend CCU class, why? People would claim me as a weird person when they see me in that clothes.

WOW! Everybody looks good on their own. Most of my friend wore Traditional costume from Indonesia such as Kebaya, but there’s also people who wore Kebaya Modern style and A friend of mine wore a traditional costume from Netherland. Quite unique I thought. She’s brave enough to wear the-extraordinary-one and show up with confidence. That’s the point that I got from Kartini Day celebration . We don’t need to be someone else to looks great. We can do it with ourself. Just put a big confidence and feel comfortable, and we will be great. Wear a clothes or anything you like and make youself look adorable no matter what. Eventhough it’s Vintage or known as an old-used-clothes.

I love the character of vintage clothing specialness the whimsy, but unfortunately people just see the garments. By wearing vintage clothing, I have the chance to experience true luxury construction  that many people wears in Europe around 1960’s. Every Vintage clothing come up with a story, and it’s mysery that make people wondering about it. It’s also invite meaningful conversation in ways that modern clothing doesn’t. And that’s correct. I make people guessing and wondering about what kind of clothes that wear at that time. One of my lecture asked me “What’s that?” when my Netherland’s girls-friend and I took a picture, and before class started, many friends of mine asked the same thing.

The other interesting things about vintage is, Vintage clothing help us to give our character and our own story. They become more valuable as they grow older. My lecture asked about the reason why I wore that vintage clothing- I said that I just want to express myself by wearing vintage clothes that most people didn’t wear to make my own character. Because most of the time I hate when I saw people wear a same clothes as mine, and with Vintage style, I’ll never find someone else wears a same thing as mine.  

Vintage’s more than old-clothes. It’s a history, art, stories of those who’ve come before us. By wearing them we keep those histories and artistry alive. Wear vintage clothing is to be wrapped in romance. It’s just simply special.

/bee, vintage lover/

a good-qoute

Vintage clothes