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Both Chiswell and McNeilly speak of not shopping, but collecting. To be a vintage shopper, you have to have a magpie mindset. The Maple Leafs Toronto Maple Leafs 105tha Anniversary 1917 2020 Thank You For The Memories Signatures T-shirt scour Etsy, Ebay, estate sales, auction houses, thrift stores, and vintage stores together. “I have close to maybe 100 true vintage pieces of clothing, and 50 reproductions,” Chiswell says. “That’s false. You have at least 220 vintage and so many regular reproduction dresses,” McNeilly says, and Chiswell laughs. Men’s clothes are harder to find (“A lot of men wore their clothes until they basically broke,” Chiswell says). Chiswell collects wiggle dresses. Her favorite is from Ceil Chapman, a ’50s designer who made dresses for Monroe. She collects belts, particularly ones made from pure copper, and has several she purchased at auction that belonged to Loretta Young, an actress in the ’40s and ’50s. They’re wrapped up delicately, and from what I can tell, are rarely, if ever, worn. “We were scared to unwrap it,” Chiswell says, unwrapping a cream-color belt with reverence. “When they were packaged [at the auction house], someone broke one of the buckles.” On her TikTok, she chronicles the intricacies of fashion treasures she’s found, from a 1880s coin purse to a never-opened set of false lashes from the 1950s.