Adopting the fashionable trend of vintage style clothing, and carrying it off successfully does not require the creativity of a top fashion designer.

If you want to look uniquely different, but trendy and fashionable, you need to know how to incorporate vintage style clothing into your existing wardrobe, and have the bold knack of accessorising your vintage style.

Taking this approach is not hard, and it can be budget friendly too, saving you good money. 

To achieve the vintage style clothing appearance,  looking stunning always, you'll need a little creativity, an open mind and just a bit fashion sense.  And if you are lucky to have grandparents still around, or recently passed on, rummage through their personal stuff, that is if you can, and discover some amazing finds of vintage style clothing to start a collection or add to what vintage style clothing may have acquired.

VINTAGE ITEMS CAREFULLY CRAFTED WITH STYLE

Many of us have amassed vintage item collections and vintage style clothing over the years even without being aware of it. Accumulating items and pieces we barely use, items such as an ancient brooch with a few missing gemstones, vintage hat boxes, a vintage tie-neck blouse, a 50's jelly bean bracelet,  a musical trinket box with mother of pearl inlay but with a musical malfunction, or a pair of oversized rhinestone ear clips belonging to mum.

Remember that all these items were carefully and intricately crafted with style, so we can find productive ways to bring them back to life, incorporating  vintage style clothing into our 21st century lives and wardrobes. 

I always refer to this as an 'indulgence in amassing the vintage', and the aim of this indulgence is to transform all collectibles into stylish couture items of everyday or night wear.

Here are 5 tips on how to wear vintage style clothing and accessories successfully, making an enviable fashion statement with your silhouette.

• Grandma's seemingly dowdy 1930's flapper dress has great potential. If for example, its too large in the bust but fits perfectly at the waist, then have it altered to fit your size.

There really is no point worrying about modifications or alterations decreasing a vintage style clothing's value. It will be useless to you if you cant wear it, so how valuable can it be if you cant wear it. It will just lie packed away somewhere, useless! You can take it to a dressmaker and have it altered. Then flaunt it!

If it's too small and impossible to button or zip up, without it ripping at the seams then get a corset!

• Look out for the basic pieces of vintage style clothing such as slacks, pencil skirts, dresses and jackets. It is better if these clothing items are in solid or neutral tones or colour. Once neutral, they will work well with trendy and modern blouses, tops and vintage inspired shoes.
  

And having a stylish vintage pair of brown slacks or a black A-line skirt, you can wear these several times a week with different chic tops and blouses or shirts. You are even allowed to throw in a unique vintage thin tie.

• When shopping around, online or offline, invest in classic vintage style clothing and accessories.Some clothing and great accessories will never go out of style always coming back with just the slightest modifications.

Classic clothing such as the boxy Chanel style jacket or black slacks will last season after season and will always be fashionable and chic and forever in style. Investing in a great vintage leather handbag in a neutral colour, a cameo necklace, or a black wool suit is a great way to start your collection of vintage style clothing and accessories.

• In the 60’s and the 70’s, polyester fabric was it for clothes and in the 1980s, rayon was the rave! When looking out for vintage style clothing, avoid these fabrics as they come out looking dated and unfashionable! They have no co-relation with the term 'chic'. So it's much better and wiser to consider natural textiles such as cotton, silk, or wool.

You can successfully go with traditional textile patterns as textile patterns come and go, for example, the 80’s Coogi sweaters. Look for vintage style clothing made with timeless fabric patterns such as hounds-tooth, plaid, and pinstripes.

Remember to collect or purchase vibrant and bold colours, styles and patterns for your vintage accessories.

• Don’t wear vintage from head to toe, but ensure you combine modern 21st century clothes and accessories with vintage clothing so as to avoid looking like you are attending a fancy dress party! You don’t have to re-live it.

For a good example of vintage style clothing , you can pin a rhinestone flower brooch or a beautiful cameo brooch to a neutral coloured jacket, or you can wear a vintage style silk flower scarf with a crisp white shirt. A vintage tie-neck blouse looks great over a pair of skinny jeans, or you can enhance a new 2009 dress with vintage or antique costume jewellry.

Say you own a clear Lucite box handbag from the 60's, or an exquisitely beaded cardigan hanging on a rack in the back corner of your wardrobe, handed down to you by someone who felt you will cherish them. Integrate them into your special vintage fashion style wardrobe. You can wear them for special occasions, or to special events.

Now that you have a good idea of how to approach wearing vintage style clothing successfully, go out there and start amassing, by purchasing a few vintage items to begin with.

And with the vintage items you've got in your possession, get busy preparing for your new fashion style of vintage style clothing by:

• tailoring great-grandma's flapper dress to fit.
• fixing that damaged brooch at a local jewellry shop. Have them fill in the missing gemstones with look alike faux gems, and then wear it with great pride.
• getting those white lace gloves cleaned professionally
• turning your inherited vintage luggage which held a few vintage style clothinginto an avant-garde coffee table in your living room, now that you have the clothing hung up in your wardrobe.

step out there with confidence and style. Because only the bold and confident can pull it off with success.

Be fashion forward and be the envy of your peers in your vintage style clothing!

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