The Birth of Vintage | Racked
"If anyone has a divinely seedy raccoon coat lying around the house, riddled by a few heavenly holes and ravishing rips,” Nan Robertson wrote 60 years ago in the New York Times, “now is the time to wear it.” Robertson’s claxon call for wearing 1920s raccoon coats — those giant, shaggy full-length furs that were all the rage for frat boys on pre-Black Tuesday college campuses — feels fresh. Who doesn’t want to wear a seedy coat rendered divine by the passing of time? Fashion’s dime may turn on the new, but vintage clothing springs eternal: All time is the right time for vintage clothing.