Sheffield's Vintage Clothes Fair was a big hit last Saturday at The Basement,in the city centre, with people turning up in the masses to buy cheap unique clothes.
The Basement, which is normally a busy bar on West Street, was transformed into an 'old skool' clothes market on Saturday between midday and 5pm encouraging people to buy second-hand clothes and unique new labels at a cheap price.
Admission to the event was only £1 and there were between 30-40 stalls in total each one selling mainly men and women's handmade, reworked or vintage clothes at wholesale or sale prices.
Many stalls were predominantly selling women's clothing including vintage and uniquely designed reworked dresses, trousers, blouses, t-shirts, handbags, belts, hats and many other garments. Other creations being sold were greetings cards, crafts, postcards and 1950s style feathers to put in your hair.
Although the bar was open as usual, most people were refreshing themselves with cups of tea and homemade fairy cakes with flamboyant multi-coloured icing priced at a not-so credit crunch friendly price of £1.75 for a large one. However, if you bought some Asian-influenced handmade jewellery at one stall, you automatically received a free chocolate brownie.
Louise Whitehead, organiser of the Sheffield Vintage Clothes events said: "It was a very successful day with many well-dressed people turning up. I'm very happy with how it's gone and look forward to the next one."
The next event Louise is holding is a Vintage Clothes Swap on Wednesday 25th March at Bang Bang Vintage in Sheffield. The idea of the event is that you bring vintage clothes (rules apply) and swap them for other clothes. Tickets cost £5 and more details can be found on their website www.sheffieldvintage.com.
By LIAM DAY
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