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things.

The likes, Cathy, of Vintage and some of the other reselling sites, how much of an impact do you think they've had on the charity shop sector?

Yeah, you know, there's sort of a mixed bag on this, Andrea.

Some people will say that, you know what, people are keeping all their good stuff for rented and they're sending the tat to the charity shop so they can make a few quid.

She's from the North East.

So I'm originally from the North East and I have Revolve Vintage, the vintage shop.

Now I moved from the North East to London when I was 25.

I left my job working for the police.

So I did that for four years and then I moved to Manchester.

still doing the same kind of work just to be closer to family and from there I then started working in the prisons in education and this is when I started my side hustle of vintage and I left my job three years ago now I'm going into my fourth year of business and working you know doing my vintage it's gone from my side hustle to this so here I am here you are yeah

absolutely shining it as well and I'm so excited to like dig into this story so with Revolve Vintage what I think it's so much bigger than just vintage fashion.

Like, for you, what does Revo Vintage, like, mean? Oh, definitely.

Now, let's talk about today's show.

Today, we're chatting with Bella Long, the vintage seller behind Valentine Vintage, who's also a fashion historian and archivist in the making, finishing her final year of grad school at NYU, where she's earning master's degrees in costume studies and library science.

Bella grew up in Southern California, where she fell in love with old movies and the glamorous costumes in them.

She started working at her local buy/sell trade store when she was just 17 years old, and started selling vintage in college after learning the ropes interning for Sarah at Cameo Appearance Vintage.

After college, Bella went full time with Valentine Vintage right as the vintage market really started to boom in Chicago, where she was living at the time.

Along the way, she took a job in Chicago's Columbia College Fashion Study Collection, which introduced her to the world of historical dress and archive, and that's what led her to go back to school to turn her love of fashion and research into a career in archives.

She's now interning in museum and library collections, including doing an oral history project on postal workers' uniforms with the Smithsonian National Postal Museum.

Um, I'm Bella Long.

In today's episode, I am going to be talking about ComplexCon, ThriftCon, recap, how it went down, my thoughts, my insights, and, uh, whatever else topics pop into my head along the way.

Welcome to Vintage and Softcore.

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And I'm like, yes, hello, thank you.

Vintage comes to all of us that wait.

And you're getting, you know, you're also getting a much more, you're getting diasporas from different country.

Like I was talking about Eunice, but there's lots of different people.