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"You dolls may know I&amp;#x27;m a vintage freak, and one of my favorite parlor games is dreaming up what went on with my garment before it found its way to me--did some fabulous disco queen don my YSL sequined skirt to dance on banquettes at Studio 54? Was my red wool suit worn by a Sterling Cooper-esque secretary for her first day of work?--so you can imagine how tickled I was to hear about the launch of The American Vernacular, a brand new site that gives a little history lesson with each piece of vintage it sells. TheAmericanVernacular.com (officially going live at noon today!) is the brainchild of Bryn Lander, above, who used to work at Resurrection (Manhattan&amp;#x27;s best vintage store by many estimations) and--fun little fact!--is the namesake behind Vampire Weekend&amp;#x27;s song &amp;quot;Bryn.&amp;quot; She and the band&amp;#x27;s members were classmates at Columbia, where she studied American history and became so obsessed with the idea of vintage Americana that she decided to translate the concept into her first retail business. Bryn set out on an old fashioned road trip about a year and a half ago to do some scouting of flea markets, Salvation Armies, and estate sales to see what kind of clothes she could turn up, and was struck with a rather genius idea on her drive home: &amp;quot;I thought, how great it would be to help people feel a stronger connection to and a greater appreciation for stuff they buy online,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;I wanted to take the idea of buying vintage and give it context, make it feel like it has a place in our modern world.&amp;quot; So she boned up on her fashion history and decided that each piece she sold would include as much information about the designer, time period, and provenance as she could fit in. And she gives the clothes even more context by photographing them on a real person, styled in a modern way--&amp;quot;I was so surprised at how few vintage sites actually photograph on models,&amp;quot; she tells us--which is a huge help to gals who can&amp;#x27;t quite picture themselves making a bold yellow Burberry peacoat look brand new (proof: the above photo! Add skinny jeans, a chambray shirt, and high heels and you&amp;#x27;re in business). Bryn also keeps a photo diary of her travels, scoping out the coolest and quirkiest places from the Midwest to the Northeast and everywhere in between (the Wigwam Motel in Rialto, CA? Um, that exists, and apparently it&amp;#x27;s awesome). For those of us who don&amp;#x27;t have the luxury of traveling the country scoping out the best vintage clothes from the likes of Guy LaRoche, Givenchy, Oleg Cassini, and Pierre Cardin, and chatting with store owners to find out as much about those pieces as possible, like Bryn does, The American Vernacular is the next best thing. The site launches today with about 160 utterly covetable items; look for even more in the coming weeks. And even if you&amp;#x27;re not a vintage shopper, pop by for a serious slice of Americana and a little history lesson. Shop now! PLUS! - Break out your chokers and mini-backpacks; 90s fashion is officially &amp;quot;vintage&amp;quot; - A real-life PanAm stewardess on what it was like to wear that uniform - Fancy some Sylvia Plath with those pants? Meet the artist who &amp;quot;poetry bombs&amp;quot; vintage clothes More Ways to Get Glamour: Chat with celebs, VIP fashion stars, beauty pros and more on our Facebook page! Visit Facebook.com/glamour for this month&amp;amp;#8217;s schedule Get the latest fashion updates via Twitter on @glamour_fashion Check out our chic Tumblr! Read Glamour magazine on your iPad&amp;amp;#8212;print subscribers, it&amp;amp;#8217;s now part of your subscription plan! Like freebies? Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Sign up for our fashion and beauty newsletters to get easy style tips (it&amp;#x27;ll make your inbox 10x sexier, we promise). And, did you know you can read glamour.com on your smart phone?! It&amp;amp;#8217;s the ultimate boredom buster. Photos: courtesy of Bryn Lander Want even more STF? Follow us on Twitter! Latest Tweets!Follow us on Twitter!jQuery(&amp;quot;.blog-tweets&amp;quot;).tweet({username:[&amp;quot;glamour_fashion&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;cindi_leive&amp;quot;], count: 3}); "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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