When did 20 and 30 year old patterns and yarn become vintage?

[ScoobyDoo0811]

This aroused my curiosity so I had to go look up the definition :lol and I will have to say that many people are using the term correctly. According to the definition it is anything old-fashioned, obsolete or out-moded, or representing the high quality of a past time.

[Real Deal]

Oh yeah ~ and exactly WHO is trying to make everything outmoded, worn out, no good, broken, and outdated so fast? The young think it's great, cute and wonderful to have something new every other day, and don't see commercialism written all over this!

 

Well, yes, I guess I am now vintage, when my grandmother (at my current age) wasn't close to it. Interesting.

 

I can't wait for the young who have Ipods stuck up their ... uh-hum, ears, to be told, "Wow, look at those vintage Ipod cozies!" :lol

 

My girlfriend and I were busting a gut when girls were oohing and aahing at hip hugger jeans and short shorts. They were stunned when we told them we always wore them when we were younger. I think we burst their fashion bubble. The girls thought these were new fashion ideas.

[boksie]

You know what I hate???? I graduated high school in 1975....and DJs actually have the nerve to call "my" music oldies!

I'm right there with you! When as a "vintage" woman I took a history class in college (class of 2002) one of the students said they really enjoyed studying the 1970s. I thought, that's not history, it's current events! lol!

[crochettreasures]

What I love is when I have my boys in the car and a supposedly "New" song comes on the radio and I say - oh yeah this is a remake the original song was out in 1970 - 1980s (depending on the song).

 

They argue with me and say "No this is - fill in the blank with trendy new artist -" They wrote it.

 

Most times, I have the original and have to pull out my tapes (some are even 8 -tracks) to prove it to them. They laugh everytime - and tell me I really need to update my music and get an mp3 player and that I'm living in the olden days.

[ldyer1]

The other day a teenage kid at work was counting in spanish "uno dos tres" so I started singing "uno dos tres quatro cinco cinco seis". She looked up at me confused, I said "you know the song". The other two kids stared at me blankly. We all went back to our handcrafts and a few minutes later the first kid piped up "you know you dated yourself with that one". I had to laugh and say "I kinda got that impression".

 

I am only 25

[kazily]

I think of vintage as being 20-40 yrs old. Antique I think of as being more like 50-100 yrs old (or older). I'm 48 so I am vintage & feel it most days.

 

Retro I think of as recycling decorating or fashion styles of a "recent" generation.

[cjansen]

My girlfriend and I were busting a gut when girls were oohing and aahing at hip hugger jeans and short shorts. They were stunned when we told them we always wore them when we were younger. I think we burst their fashion bubble. The girls thought these were new fashion ideas.

 

And my 21yo daughter complains constantly that her generation can't think of anything new. the retro 60's, 70's 80's an now 70's again!

[Sugarcoatedlies]

When I was selling craft and sewing items in a store at TIAS.com Antique was 100 years or more. and Vintage was 25 years old or more.

 

basically

[Sugarcoatedlies]

I'm right there with you! When as a "vintage" woman I took a history class in college (class of 2002) one of the students said they really enjoyed studying the 1970s. I thought, that's not history, it's current events! lol!

 

not really current events, we have much more technology and different events happening. it is pretty much history, sorry to say.

[MaryPat]

..... When did 20 and 30 year old patterns and yarn become vintage? Did I miss something?

 

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I think these patterns became vintage the day I got the invitation to join AARP.

[Lyndamic]

The other day a teenage kid at work was counting in spanish "uno dos tres" so I started singing "uno dos tres quatro cinco cinco seis". She looked up at me confused, I said "you know the song". The other two kids stared at me blankly. We all went back to our handcrafts and a few minutes later the first kid piped up "you know you dated yourself with that one". I had to laugh and say "I kinda got that impression".

 

I am only 25

 

Ya gotta keep 'em separated! If that song dates YOU, then I'm ancient.

[Stephanie]

In the 1970s, things done prior to 1950 were considered vintage. So, the use of the term really hasn't changed. 20-30 years would fit stuff from the 80s. I know. I'm vintage now.

[Real Deal]

Well ~ here's to the days when there was no Red Heart Super Saver! Before it, the choice was between Sayelle and Wintuk (or a store brand, which then was usually unthinkable). Unless you had a lot of money to burn, these were the choices. A little vintage history here.

 

So when you shopped at Ames, K-Mart and similar department stores, Sayelle and Wintuk were competitors for your $$$. I personally liked Sayelle better. They were both acrylic, but Sayelle was Orlon acrylic, which was softer. It was not only Orlon acrylic, it was virgin orlon acrylic ~ not reprocessed acrylic.

 

Think about the scratchiness of yarn today ~ or the soft ones that literally fall apart. Why? Are they chopped yarn to make them soft and fluffy?

 

Yarn didn't used to be that way, in the good, old, vintage days.

[Sugarcoatedlies]

interesting info.

 

i've noticed that while red heart is scratchy in solid colors, some of the ones that are multicolor are softer! and they don't say they're supposed to be soft

[Real Deal]

Yes, I think there's a problem with some of the new softer, fluffier yarns that feel and look wonderful, then they shed all over the place, or look ratty not long after a few washings and dryings, even when being very careful with them. That makes me think they are probably chopped, reprocessed, loosely respun for loft, strands.

 

And I hate it, I really hate it, when a certain % of a yarn states "unknown fiber." EXCUSE ME! You made this yarn and you don't know what that last 4% is? You are just dumping in junk that happens to be in a pile in the corner or what? I won't buy any yarn, ever, that has "unknown fiber" on the label. It could be wool or cotton that will shrink when I wash my acrylic afghan, making it look distorted. It could be rags. Yuk!