Virtual Vintage: The Insider’s Guide to Buying and Selling Fashion Online
- ISBN13: 9780812992007
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Vintage clothing has never been more chic, with everyone from celebrity trendsetters to style-conscious professionals searching for wearable treasures from the past. Virtual Vintage is the first and only guide that helps both the novice and the fashion connoisseur evaluate and confidently participate in the thriving vintage marketplace that exists online. No other book explains how to get it, sell it, fix it, or wear it with flair. Authors Linda Lindroth and Deborah… More >>
Virtual Vintage: The Insider’s Guide to Buying and Selling Fashion Online
The book is extraordinary – in-depth in the extreme.
Rating: 5 / 5
Hello:
I have been collecting vintage jewelry and clothing for many years and now intend to start an online business.
I found this book very useful. It has plenty information about how to buy and sell vintage clothing and accessories online, many tips and advice on how to list items in eBay and other auction sites plus a directory of web sites which sell this kind of stuff, rated by the quality of pages and prices. In chapter “Heroes” the authors list some of the best sellers they have found in the web and comments about them.
Another enjoyable chapter lists the movies that all vintage fashion afficionados should watch.
Written in a very friendly style, this book is a great source of information. Highly recommended to all those persons who intend to start a vintage clothing online business.
Renée
Rating: 5 / 5
Usually I don’t “read” antique guide books, but a couple of pages into this one and I was hooked. In Virtual Vintage you’ll find common sense tips on buying and selling vintage on-line, the A to Z of navigating eBay (I learned several new tricks) and lots of design and fashion tips. The book presents useful info including international size conversion charts, how to remove stains from clothing and must-see Hollywood films for clothes lovers. It was so well done I wanted to learn more about Virtual Vintage’s two women authors and how they came to write this surprisingly literary guide book.
Virtual Vintage has a section that rates many of the dot com vintage sites for content, ease of use and return policies. Virtual Vintage is considerably more user friendly than most other antique/collectible guide books that I’ve seen… I am also fond of the book because it gave my vintage site a great review! I will certainly recommend this book to my web customers.
Rating: 5 / 5
Virtual Vintage covers the world of online vintage fashion. If you are new to buying and selling vintage fashion online, its a great place to start. If you are not new, it still had plenty of tips that I didn’t think about before.
The book is much more than online vintage fashions. It also goes into detail about what to look for from different designers, periods, etc. It has chapters on how to repair and care for your vintage fashions. The back of the book includes a directory (with summary) of online retailers to check out.
I found this book easy and enjoyable to read cover to cover rather than just as a reference. The authors write in an informative yet enertaining way.
The only negative thing I would have to say is; when will there be an updated version??? Some of the online sites and eBay information is dated, as is to be expected in a virtual world.
Rating: 5 / 5
A WONDERFULLY fun book — to read, to refer to, to give as a gift to alll your girlfriends! Endless information, up-to-date resources, very knowledgeable and savvy and the only book you need about vintage on the net. I hope it gets a new edition every other year or — knowing the net — EVERY year; I’ll keep every edition, because none will ever be obsolete. These authors know their audience, know their subject, know their territory. A book you’ll read again and again and never, ever, finish. :->
Rating: 5 / 5