vintage styles

Old-fashioned aesthetic choices

Vintage styles are fashion, design, or aesthetic choices that evoke or directly reproduce looks from earlier decades—typically at least twenty years past.

The term spans clothing, furniture, typography, and visual design: She decorated the apartment in vintage styles from the 1970s.

Unlike antique, which implies genuine age and collectibility, vintage styles may be contemporary reproductions capturing a retro sensibility.

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Categories
Opposites
temporal fashion orientation

vintage stylescontemporary design

Current-era aesthetic approach

modern aesthetics · avant-garde · ultramodern

design philosophy

vintage stylesavant-garde

Innovative cultural pioneers

ultramodern · futurism · modernism

cultural value orientation

vintage stylesfast fashion

Trend-driven cheap apparel

throwaway culture · planned obsolescence · off-the-rack · seasonal collections

Family

style, vintage, styles, stylus

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G