Vintage clothing: Why the past is all the fashion

VINTAGE clothing has come of age. Something, perhaps, to do with the fact that all previously-loved clothes have a back story.

Something, no doubt, also to do with the fact that vintage clothing was made when tailors and dressmakers worked with beautifully textured fabrics, following the fashion of the day.

Today, however, attention to detail comes at a high price in high street, high-end stores. Cheaper brands can do it, too, but often at a human cost, as underlined by the recent factory collapse in Bangladesh, in which young workers were killed churning out cheap clothing for the West.