Are vintage clothes the clothes of dead people? Can we buy vintage clothes?

Vintage clothes are clothes with a sense of age. Formal vintage clothes are clothes designed by other designers and have a history of at least 30 years. However, the vintage clothing market is becoming more and more complicated, and vintage clothes are even associated with foreign garbage. So is it really worth buying such clothes?

Buying vintage clothes is undoubtedly a game for fashionable people, but it is not suitable for everyone. Although vintage stores will thoroughly clean and disinfect the items they purchase, regular chain vintage stores such as Japan's Daikokuya, RAGTAG, and Vintage Qoo will strictly handle and disinfect the goods.

If you have a mental obsession with cleanliness, or believe that things that have been used by others may be contaminated with their souls and cause supernatural events, you can only stay away from vintage items.

A more sensational statement is that vintage clothes are clothes from the dead. Reports about foreign garbage entering Asia are basically menstrual news, which will "go viral" on WeChat Moments every once in a while. Many headlines even use words such as "funeral home", "morgue" and "infectious disease" to challenge our poor nerves and tell us what a terrible conspiracy is behind "second-hand goods".

In fact, if we think about it in the right way, we will find that vintage clothes have been demonized in China, and the idea that "vintage clothes are clothes for the dead" is simply not true. First of all, vintage clothes cannot be roughly equated with second-hand clothes and second-hand goods. Vintage lovers are looking for and buying the era, craftsmanship and fashion culture concentrated in an item, which is not a level that ordinary second-hand clothes and "foreign garbage" can achieve.

Secondly, vintage clothing has a huge market today, and the clothes on the deceased are far from enough to support such a huge demand.

There are many superstitions and misunderstandings about vintage clothing in China. But one thing that cannot be denied is that China is still in a stage where demand for shiny new goods is outstripping supply, just like Japan at the end of the last century. Perhaps in a decade or even decades, a complete vintage clothing market and culture will naturally develop.

There are still genuine vintage stores, but you have to be careful to identify them, because there are a lot of foreign junk being sold as vintage.

Vintage clothes are actually second-hand clothes from foreign countries. The clothes are all retro styles, which are called antiques abroad. There are also special vintage clothing markets. Many foreigners have a special liking for retro and things left over from the last era. They think that it is a piece of clothing with a story, and it also has special commemorative significance.

However, these clothes are very different after entering the Chinese market. They are what we call "foreign garbage". These clothes are packed and shipped in large quantities from abroad. They are washed and ironed in China, and then labeled and sold as last-minute and unique items. The prices are very cheap, so they will attract a large number of customers.

Suddenly I remembered the news about the seizure of "foreign garbage" in Shenzhen. Most of the clothes shipped from abroad come from foreign garbage dumps, scrap collection stations, and even some clothes come from morgues. There are a lot of germs in them, which are very contagious. Moreover, the acquisition cost of these clothes is almost zero. Some unscrupulous dealers refurbish them and sell them to consumers at a price of tens of yuan per piece. Well, in order to make money, they don't care about conscience, and send them back from abroad, cheating our own people.

Therefore, when buying clothes, try not to buy those original foreign trade products or some leftover or rare items. It cannot be said that they are all rubbish, but in terms of safety, it is better to buy clothes from regular merchants, at least you can wear them with peace of mind.

Nowadays, in order to make huge profits, many businesses specialize in wholesale foreign garbage that foreigners don't want, wash it and resell it. Many of them are even taken off the dead. So I hope everyone will carefully choose merchants when buying clothes. The vintage style that you think is fashionable may be someone else's funeral clothes, so don't buy foreign garbage before.

If you want to return it, it should be possible. TB is more biased towards buyers, but the seller may block you. If you are blocked too many times, you may not be able to buy anything.