vintage is such a misused word. All it means is pertaining to that year. So something could be vintage 80's, or even vintage 90's. But people use it to mean old and collectible--when often the item is neither, ahaha.
Ahhh! I hadn't considered that- they're using it they way it's used for wine. Now that I think about it, it makes sense. A lot of things are still around or have left and come around again. One way to know something isn't new, a reproduction or from the first time around is to designate it vintage. Still, it does make me feel old.
Didn't it used to be a designation that required an object to be a specific amount of years? Something wasn't considered an antique unless it was over 100 years old, vintage at least fifty years old and anything else was just old or collectible.
not as far as I know. When I used to frequent the ebay message board a lot this subject would come up. Antique is 100 years, but vintage doesn't refer to a specific age. Apparently "old or outmoded" is an acceptable definition as well--which doesn't help with the 80's reference, does it!
Hi! Sorry for the totally off-topic post, but I noticed that you list fat-activism as one of your interests and I wanted to both let you know about the book project I'm working on and to invite you to take part. I apologize if you're already aware - livejournal can be a small community sometimes - but since you're not on my friends list, I thought I'd drop you a line. :) More info about the project is here: http://www.stacybias.net -- Essentially, I want to interview 150-200 women of size across the united states and as many parts international as I can afford and, based on the interviews, fictionalize the least common and most common threads into a series of monologues suitable for stage performance, as well as published as a short fiction anthology. Thank you for your time, and sorry again for the off-topic post!
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Didn't it used to be a designation that required an object to be a specific amount of years? Something wasn't considered an antique unless it was over 100 years old, vintage at least fifty years old and anything else was just old or collectible.
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