YSL is his name

Styling my vintage YSL short blazer

Nov 28, 2024

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I can sense that I’m entering a new era on my fashion journey - I get really excited and also super humble about finding and then wearing vintage pieces - not just 2nd hand or preloved clothes that are maybe anything between 0 to 4-5 years old - but truly vintage ones.

Something that Tiia from Sunday Style Thoughts recently wrote about. In her ode to a very, very old long black double-breasted men’s winter overcoat she tries to capture that special feeling that a vintage garment can evoke. Exactly how old her overcoat is - well, you’ll need to find out for yourself reading her latest post:

Sunday Style Thoughts

The Shop, The Coat, And The Hand Flex

At the end of October I closed down my old vintage shop that I had had for over seven years. It’s the longest I’ve ever worked anywhere. On one cold evening as I was scratching off the window graphics with a carpet knife and saw my shop’s name disappear from the window one letter at a time, I was expecting to feel somber or at least nostalgic, but inste…

7 months ago · 105 likes · 36 comments · Tiia VM

As to the vintage pieces in my own closet - I only have a few. Three to be very specific. The oldest one of them is this beautiful, classic and absolutely timeless short blazer from Yves Saint Laurent.

I’ve added a couple of links at the end of this post to currently available similar cropped blazer jackets in navy - of course preloved ;) So, keep on reading and let me know which of the linked option…

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