VINTANTHROMODERN is an expertly curated vintage shop that features clothing, shoes, accessories and home goods that are handpicked daily. Our brick and mortar shop also has a great selection of handmade and small batch gifts from local makers including letterpress cards, candles, jewelry and more!

from dailynutmeg.com
"Before meeting Vintanthromodern Vintage owner Melissa Gonzales, I envisioned her as imaginative and whimsical—the kind of woman who, as a child, twirled around the kitchen in her grandmother’s fanciest frocks, sunlight and the color of marsh marigolds gliding across the floor together.
Such nostalgic notions of playing dress-up as children rings out in the hearts of many vintage lovers, but that image doesn’t completely capture Gonzales. She also radiates the energy of an old soul—serene and reflective, with a quiet inner drive.
She started Vintanthromodern Vintage in not-so-vintage 2011. She admits the business name is a mouthful, and it turns out that’s the point. “People suggested that I change it from the very beginning,” she says, “but I’m really stubborn—I promise that once you figure out how to pronounce it, you won’t forget it and that’s what, I think, gives it a lot of character.”
An art teacher during the day, she works on Vintanthromodern much of the rest of the time, finding the right clothing and curating collections to sell. Her interest in historical fashion is longstanding; flip through her high school yearbook and you’ll find Gonzales decked out in a sweet vintage velour shirt amidst a rather dreary sea of Gap logo tees.
Over the years, Gonzales has relentlessly sifted, combed and browsed, accumulating quite a mass of clothing, jewelry and accessories. Along the way she’s become well-versed in major periods of style and developed a discerning eye, which seems to have gained her a local following, particularly among New Haven’s creative-types. They may have discovered Vintanthromodern at two of New Haven’s most creative and vintage-friendly brick-and-mortar shops, the English Building Market and Project Storefronts’s brash new retailer Lipgloss Crisis, where some of Gonzales’s one-of-a-kind wares are on display.
While it’s certainly fun to flounce around in flapper dresses and spiky bracelets, and though Gonzales encourages wearing vintage as a meaningful form of self-expression, she’s also passionate about the human benefits of choosing older pieces. “More and more, people are becoming socially conscious of what’s going on in other countries. People are really looking for ways of being a consumer that doesn’t exploit others and most people don’t think of vintage as a way to do that. To me, it is,” she says.
Gonzales is likewise attuned to the environmental and consumer benefits of buying vintage. Describing much of what’s sold new today as “disposable clothing,” she adds, “It’s not just about how the piece looks, but it’s about how it’s made, the quality, and how long it will last you.”
Examining Gonzales’s treasures, one can’t help but wonder about their stories. Whose forms did they fit? What moments in history did they witness? How have they survived so intact, so long? If Vintanthromodern Vintage has its way, those stories are far from over."