England has been riding a Vinted wave since 2014 and that wave has finally crashed to Australian shores with the popular re-selling site launched in Australia in July 2026.I left the UK in 2013 so I missed the huge uptake in pre-loved clothing popularity in the UK. But I had a store in Manchester's Northern Quarter from 2005 to 2015 so I certainly saw a huge amount of change in the way people shopped. My store in England sold primarily my own label clothing "Me&Yu" but I added in vintage accessories and an up-cycled clothing range to create a fun fashion boutique where you could create your own unique look. I first launched Kitten Vintage in England in 2011 as...
Sometimes you've just got to go slower... I had great plans to get my website fully stocked, locked and loaded by the end of May but life gets in the way. With Season of Family Birthdays, illnesses and winter chills it's suddenly mid June. But slowly and steadily the Grunge Edit is being stocked, and some cute knits will be heading over next.I had to cancel my stall at Fashion Thrift Society for June as it's clashes with Miss 8's dance show so my next event will be the amazing Round She Goes on July 19th.In the meantime I'll be snuggling down with a blanket, a cup of tea and my laptop and getting all those NEW THINGS loaded...
The latest drop to the web shop is The Grunge Edit. I have such a fondness for this era, as a 90's Art Student, I spent weekends in incense filled hippy shops perusing the tiedye, Indian embroidery and grungey florals, saving up for silver earrings and making friendship bracelets or necklaces from found objects. (I'm the one in plaits in the image below wearing a necklace I made from a bit of metal I found on the street).Blackpool Art College 1993Inspired by our favourite bands, we'd pull our looks together from our parents 70's stash of flares, waistcoats, leather jackets and squeeze into kids tees with graphic prints. We found floral frocks from the jumble sale or charity shop added...
Well I'm slowly but surely adding products to the new Kitten Vintage Square Mini-Site.The Denim Edit will be live today and I've learnt so much along the way. I've still got some annoying things I don't seem to be able to change - quirks of using the free version of square's web hosting (that annoying red Low Stock alert). As these sites are often created by an IT professional in an office somewhere, they don't have any idea of the end consumer trying to utilise them. One of the terribly time-consuming things about selling vintage online is that we're all here trying to sell individual pieces. We can't sell one in every colour, one in every size or "great this is...
Well it's time for my annual blog post! I always was a terrible diary keeper, but I have missed blogging a little recently so you never know I might fire it up again...March already and I still feel like the year is just getting started.
