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Hello.
I recently visited my son, Dane, who lives up in West Hollywood and had an opportunity
to do some vintage clothes shopping with him up in the Hollywood area.
We visited three places and in this video I'm going to tell you about our experience
at all three.
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Like I was saying, we were up visiting my son, Dane, in the West Hollywood area where
he lives for a weekend, had a great time.
And we got to shoot out for a couple of hours and explore some of the vintage clothes places
up there that I've been wanting to check out.
So, we went to Iguana Vintage, which we'll show you first.
Then we went to a place that I follow on Instagram called Vintage on Hollywood.
And then right next door, there's a new place that opened up called Starday.
We went to those three.
Had very different experiences at all three, and so I'm going to take you through that
right now.
We started by driving down Hollywood Boulevard, so iconic.
Everything that you picture.
The walk of stars, we were walking all through there.
Now Hollywood is not really the nicest part of L.A., but it is a fun place to go.
So, here we are in front of Iguana Vintage, the kids are walking in now like I said.
This place is enormous, it takes up almost a block and it is a good two stories tall,
but super fun.
And it just is loaded with everything that you can imagine.
The sign for the 501 Levi's definitely got me there, my favorite thing ever invented,
and boy was there an excellent selection of them here at Iguana Vintage.
I had just gotten some, so I was stocked up on my Levi's 501s, but certainly the next
time that I need them I am heading over here.
And the price was definitely right.
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The sheer amount of product in this place was amazing and there were multiples of everything
you could imagine.
There were tons of accessories, a lot of hats, all sorts of things from different decades,
in very good shape, and just--you know something, look at all the just overalls that there were,
so it was really nice and fun.
Dane loved all the hats, we had a great time trying things on.
But it was also just a bit too big, I don't know.
We were even walking downstairs, as if the part top isn't big enough, there's a whole
downstairs section that's just about the same size as that.
So, it was almost for this trip for me, too much.
There was just too much inventory, it wasn't curated as much as I would have liked for
at least my habit there.
I wasn't looking for anything specific.
I guess if I was, maybe I could have gone right to that section.
It was fun though, but just a little bit overwhelming for some reason.
We then headed to another part of the Hollywood area.
This was a little nicer area.
I loved this street sign as we were headed to Vintage on Hollywood.
It is a place that I follow on Instagram and they have some really, really nice pieces,
at least that's what it looked like on Instagram, so I was really excited to get in there and
check Vintage on Hollywood out.
As you can see, this is much smaller, super well curated.
These pieces were amazing.
They were so beautiful.
They were mostly I think from sort of all the way through the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s.
Wonderful pieces.
Dane just had so much fun trying them on.
Everything looked great on him and this was a really fun place to go and you had a nice
sense of different eras.
The thing is, things were very pricy.
It was quite pricy.
Again, because they were really nice vintage pieces and they were from very old and in
great shape, but just a little bit too much for us, even though we had a lot of fun.
At least Dane did, trying it on.
At this point we had not bought anything and we kind of thought we were going to give up.
And then right next door, we spotted this place called Starday that I think is fairly
new to the area.
So, we thought that we would just hop in there and take a look around.
And, I'm so glad we did.
I sort of felt like Goldilocks that day: The first place was too big, the second place
was nice but too pricy, here we were at finally our right stop Starday Vintage which was just
perfect.
There was the same great mix of 40s through 80s, maybe a little bit of 90s goods.
A good men's section and a good women's section.
Lots of accessories, shoes, even a couple of items for the home and some fun magazines
that were vintage and kind of fun to look at.
The thing about this though, they were in really good shape, but not as pricy, probably
half the price as the place next door and they fit really well.
So, I'll just kind of show you some of the things that we tried on and had a lot of fun
with that day.
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Dane: Do you like this one?
Rajka: That's awesome.
Dane: Over that one?
Rajka: They're both great.
Dane: This one's sick.
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Rajka: Love, love, love this jacket that I picked up.
It fits perfectly.
The sleeves I can roll up or take down.
It was actually made in Japan in 1960 something.
It's this beautiful fabric and it's like a satin on top of it.
It feels great and I absolutely love, love, love it.
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I like this.
I think that I'm going to get it and belt it.
Or, I can also wear it over as a jacket or I can tie it up.
I love the colors, it feels wonderful.
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We found our place after stopping at three different ones.
Dane, what are you getting and why?
Dane: So, I'm getting this vintage 50s shirt.
I've seen nothing like it, it's so cute.
It was so comfortable.
Rajka: It looked great.
Dane: These are so cool.
This also, I've never seen anything like it.
Rajka: Pendleton.
It's amazing with the belt and the velvet and it looks great on you.
Dane: Velvet belt is so cool.
And then this little 50s shirt.
I mean all the gays are wearing this now from Zara, and this is a legit one.
It's so comfortable.
Kind of different.
Rajka: Yeah, love it.
Yay!
Dane: Yay!
Win!
I'm so excited.
Rajka: Leave it to your mom to find you a vintage place in L.A.
Dane: Leave it to The Dress Up Mom.
So, I love the pieces I bought at Starday and I'm going to show them again.
This, you can't really tell, but it's a knit.
It's a knit fabric.
It's very Missoni like to me, it reminds me of some of the Missoni stuff.
It's from the 60s, it's in fantastic shape, there's no snags, nothing.
No rips.
Ugh, the colors.
This was actually in the men's section.
Both pieces that I got were from the men's section, which I like to check out in vintage
places because a lot of times I find things there.
I'm really happy with this, totally different and unique, I haven't seen anything like
this.
Even the lady that runs the shop said she's never seen a men's one of these come in.
So, love it.
I showed you in pretty much detail this incredibly cool Tuxedo type blazer that I'm also going
to love wearing.
In pristine condition.
And this is going to go with some of my work things or to dress up things at night and
I love it.
Each one of these pieces is very old, from the 60s, 50s.
Each was under $100, I think this jacket was about $60 and the other top was something
like $50.
So, that I thought was pretty reasonable for what we got and for the great condition that
these were in and the fact that they are vintage and really nicely made pieces.
I felt a little bit like Goldilocks on this journey that we took on this particular day.
One of the places to me was a little too big.
One was nice, but a little too pricy.
And then finally found the third one which was just right.
So, it just kind of shows every day is a little bit different, every city is a little bit
different and if you kind of keep looking around, you'll find something usually that
works for you.
I would love to know where you go in the Hollywood area or even in L.A. for vintage shopping.
It's not that far for me to go from San Diego.
I thought there was a lot of selection and a lot of great pieces, so it was fun, I want
to head up there again.
Thank you so much for watching, I really appreciate it.
Until next time, have fun and dress it up a little.
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