Shopaholics, rejoice! The duo behind Women's History Museum Vintage talk Blogspot beginnings, Catholic school fashion, and their all-time grails 🥼
Vintage on Canal Street, where founders Mattie Barringer and Amanda McGowan source everything from Biba to obscure Japanese brands to their own namesake label. As Taylore hunts for a party look, the duo tells her about their Blogspot beginnings, Catholic school fashion, and their biggest grails.—MEKALA RAJAGOPALSCARABELLI: Do you get any randoms off the street going, “What’s Women’s History Museum?”SCARABELLI: [Laughs] I have to try out this pink Chantal Thomass suit.
was doing an art show and she gave us the front of her studio to make clothing. She was like, “You can make clothes for the performers.”SCARABELLI: Did you know how to sew?BARRINGER: You hadBARRINGER: I did a lot of hand sewing in high school. I would make some of my own clothes.BARRINGER: So, in terms of construction and things like that, I had no experience with pattern making.
MCGOWAN: Posh Spice when she had that short angled cut, but then I was growing it out and would do a little bouffant thing.BARRINGER: Not like this. I wasn’t allowed to go this blonde.BARRINGER: Yeah, I was pretty policed, I would say maybe not as much as some of my friends—SCARABELLI: [Lifts a blue sequin top off the rack] Biba, whoa.BARRINGER: That color would look great on you.
MCGOWAN: Yeah. I went to Catholic school and it was similar. Well we had a school uniform and everything was so strict. But Jennifer Lopez went to my high school—probably 20 years before me—and legend has it that she was the reason we were allowed to wear hoop earrings.MCGOWAN: Yeah. I remember on dress down days I would get in trouble. You couldn’t wear stuff that was ripped, which was my entire style at the time. So, I was just like, whatever, I’ll just get detention.MCGOWAN: Exactly.
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