West Coast Vintage, in the USA. Our website is funkomavintage. Always with an eye to quality, time-tested classics, whimsy, not concerned with designer labels. We do that West Coast casual bohemian beach bum with a job kinda feel. We search the West Coast of the US for Women's and Men's vintage clothing, vintage Home Decor suited for trailers and tiny homes, vintage accessories, shoes and Boots, and children's vintage.
Each Handmade bag, accessory, and charm jewelry is made by hand, from locally found and small business suppliers for our materials and vintage supplies.
I found an old trunk of Edwardian clothes when I was about 10 years old, and I wore those clothes all the time. The kids I grew up with in my tiny California town never made fun of me.
I took that as encouragement. Mark had been scrounging for old stuff since he was a teeny boy. He wore his grandpa's clothes, his dad's old military stuff and started going to neighborhood yard sales as a tween and and then we met. Yeah! He named our business Funkoma, and I added vintage a year or so later.
We live in old houses, drive old cars, wear old clothes. Our entire life is vintage! Well almost....
The vintage goes like this -- Mark & I crawl thru attics and basements, dirty garages and nice clean closets to find it -- we buy it, we fix it and clean it, repair zippers, dry clean, wash, or air it out....and take pictures -- then you get to enjoy it !
-- when we make something, we make it !
Music is by John Deley and the 41 Players.
front door of the shop:
www.etsy.com/shop/funkomavintage
the website -- funkomavintage
like handmade? we have a shop !
www.etsy.com/shop/thatyountvillegirl
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Buying, wearing and selling vintage is part of our ethics: to live with less, but have more of what is excellent quality, to reuse and therefore show respect for the Earth and eschew exploitation of the working class.
We really love history so we love to research fabrics, notions, and the quality of vintage!
such garbage being factory made today. Vintage is made from real ingredients, and made to last.
We're so happy to see the rise of small production companies and micro-business.
And, it's time to reuse and recycle. This is a creative and unique way to be smart and look attractive all at once. Vintage has history.
Did someone fall in love with this and buy it at a small neighborhood shop? A big department store? Did they order this from a catalog, and then wait for weeks for the package to arrive in the mail? Anticipation !!
I've been buying, wearing, selling, and collecting vintage since I was a wee kid.
My mom took me to 'moving sales' which were the yard sales of olde, and to thrift stores too.
I've been making things all my life and started to sew for other people when I was in 5th grade. My mom showed me how to sew, and when she saw this was a passion, she bought me my own sewing machine, a Necchi Nelco, with cams to change to the fancy stitches like zig-zags--and I was off and creating and never looked back.
Mark has worn vintage and made his own clothes since he was a kid too. He does most of the fixing, sewing, and steaming and cleaning. I've always made my own clothes and then, I made almost everything the kids wore while they were growing up. Now, all the kids are creative and have made the most amazing bunch of granddaughters!