S10 Ep20 MESSY JESSY VINTAGE: Jessica Barr, a Brooklyn-based dealer - on opening a collaborative vintage showroom and her unexpected, growing specialty in vintage bridal.

Yeah.

Hi, I am Jess.

I am the owner of Messy Jesse Vintage.

I have a showroom in Brooklyn, and I sell primarily on Etsy or at showroom events or, you know, I do the Manhattan Vintage Show a lot, so I'm kind of all around New York, and I mostly, you know, I sell womenswear and bridal.

Awesome.

And we're gonna get into your whole story about how you got into dealing vintage, but I'm just curious, like, your background with style.

Were you always a fashion lover growing up?

Yes.

I always said I would work in fashion, so I think I had a little bit of time in early elementary school where I was going through all of the things.

I said I wanted to be a pilot, a vet.

I think I told my mom at one point in first grade I wanted to be a waitress, which [laughs] I did that once, so that was cool.

[laughs] Um-

You got to check it-

But-

... off the list

...

I got to check that one off the list.

But yes, I think fashion was always the thing that I came back to, just because I loved playing dress-up as a little girl, as many do.

I was always kind of looking through magazines, like Teen Vogue and Vogue, and yeah, I just, I was always very drawn to the world of fashion.

Do you remember any early, like, outfits or style influences that you were really obsessed with?

There were...

I would say my style influences, honestly, it's so funny, 'cause my style now has strayed pretty far from this, but I always loved, like, Jennifer Aniston's style [laughs] growing up when I was younger, and I think because Friends was on a lot, and I would...

My parents had that on, so I would watch Friends, and I loved Phoebe's style, and I loved Jennifer Aniston's, and I, I, I feel like I've always had these two kind of, like, style angels within me.

And one loves minimalism, and then the other one kind of likes quirky, colorful outfits that, like, maybe don't actually match, but somehow they work.

So, yeah, I think growing up I was just kind of drawn to anyone that seemed like they had a very definitive style of their own, and that was, that was pretty inspiring to me as a kid.

Yeah.

Hi, I am Jess.

I am the owner of Messy Jesse Vintage.

I have a showroom in Brooklyn, and I sell primarily on Etsy or at showroom events or, you know, I do the Manhattan Vintage Show a lot, so I'm kind of all around New York, and I mostly, you know, I sell womenswear and bridal.

Awesome.

And we're gonna get into your whole story about how you got into dealing vintage, but I'm just curious, like, your background with style.

Were you always a fashion lover growing up?

Yes.

I always said I would work in fashion, so I think I had a little bit of time in early elementary school where I was going through all of the things.

I said I wanted to be a pilot, a vet.

I think I told my mom at one point in first grade I wanted to be a waitress, which [laughs] I did that once, so that was cool.

[laughs] Um-

You got to check it-

But-

... off the list

...

I got to check that one off the list.

But yes, I think fashion was always the thing that I came back to, just because I loved playing dress-up as a little girl, as many do.

I was always kind of looking through magazines, like Teen Vogue and Vogue, and yeah, I just, I was always very drawn to the world of fashion.

Do you remember any early, like, outfits or style influences that you were really obsessed with?

There were...

I would say my style influences, honestly, it's so funny, 'cause my style now has strayed pretty far from this, but I always loved, like, Jennifer Aniston's style [laughs] growing up when I was younger, and I think because Friends was on a lot, and I would...

My parents had that on, so I would watch Friends, and I loved Phoebe's style, and I loved Jennifer Aniston's, and I, I, I feel like I've always had these two kind of, like, style angels within me.

And one loves minimalism, and then the other one kind of likes quirky, colorful outfits that, like, maybe don't actually match, but somehow they work.

So, yeah, I think growing up I was just kind of drawn to anyone that seemed like they had a very definitive style of their own, and that was, that was pretty inspiring to me as a kid.