Vintage T-Shirts Hot Items Online and at Thrift Stores
By NATHANIEL WEST- H&R Staff Writer
MATTOON - You may have a small fortune lurking in your closet or bottom drawer.
That is, unless you’ve already sold or given away (or thrown away) your old T-shirts.
"It seems that vintage style is coming back everywhere," said Jared Brown, owner of Sold Rush, a Mattoon business that buys and sells items for clients on eBay.
And whether it’s through an online auction or secondhand store, the sale of vintage T-shirts may be generating revenue that far surpasses the clothing’s original value.
So what qualifies a T-shirt as vintage?
"Everyone has their own definition of vintage, and if you asked an antiques dealer, they would probably laugh if you called an item from 1995 ‘vintage,’ " said James Applegath, a Toronto, Ontario, resident who has sold such items on eBay for three years and authored the Web service’s guide to vintage T-shirts.
"On eBay, in terms of T-shirts, it seems as though anything from at least the decade previous can be called ‘vintage,’ " Applegath said in an e-mail interview.
He noted that "vintage" and "showing signs of age" are not synonymous, and T-shirts may be in mint condition despite their age if they have been stored properly.
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