These awards will be decided upon, in the moment, by Jayson and Morgan. In order to win the award you must meet the following criteria:
1. You must be present some time at the Vintage Heaven sale between 12:00pm and 6:00pm. 2. You must not be related to either Morgan or Jayson. 3. You must agree to have your picture taken with your major award (for posterity's sake) 4. Both Jayson and Morgan have to agree that you should win the Major Award.
The following awards will be given tomorrow: 1. Creepiest Mustache 2. Random Bored Guy 3. Hey, nice shirt! 4. Tightest Jeans (reserved for gentlemen only) 5. Four Eyes Award (for a cool pair of glasses) 6. Best Tattoo
Please click through the gallery to see the awards in all of their glory.
As our more astute readers may have noticed, Morgan was featured in the latest edition of Timeout Chicago, as a "vintage seller". There were a number of misprints, and we here at Manly Vintage wanted to set the record straight once and for all. Can you believe they sent a ONE LEGGED reporter to interview Morgan? Apparently, they're so cheap they can't even afford a whole reporter. Anyways, we decided that these inaccuracies could not stand, and we had to do something.
Please see our annotated version of the article below:
Unfortunately, things are not going to work out between us. I am so sorry for rushing into a relationship.
Before meeting you, I only dreamed about machines like you. When we first met I found you irresistible, hip, and that chrome trim made my knees shake.
You were always so eager to hand me a beer. Remember when I first put eggs in your rack? Golly you have an amazing rack.
Trust me baby; when I say it’s not you, it’s me. I should change for you, but I can’t. I need someone who can handle all of me; I’ve got too much baggage baby. Move on.
I will never forget when I first touched your curves, or laid eyes on your mint green interior.
Morgan and I found a couple of bowling pins. "Let's buy these.", I said. "Why?", Morgan struck back. "Well, we could have a competition to see who could sell theirs first. See who takes the best pictures, makes the bowling pins the most appealing." The goal: See who can sell it the fastest. The only rule is that we have to keep the bowling pin at the same price as each other. Morgan set the opening price of $30. We'll see how that goes.
If you sell on etsy, you might notice that you only get a certain number of characters for the title of each item on your shop page. This same character restriction increases to 23 in the search result pages, and if the etsy gods are being nice, will increase to 23 when you end up on the front page. This is a screenshot of one of Morgan's items.
His are the bears on the right. See how it doesn't let him finish the word "black"? This restriction has been lingering in the back of my head, so I decided to tackle it.
How many characters can you have?
18 or 23 depending.
Anything other than 18 characters, including spaces, will not show up on your shop page. Anything more than 23 won't show up in search results or the front page. This *might* not be a big deal to you. Unless. Unless you start to think about the fact that those words are like an advertisement. And you want your item, whatever it is that you have, to stick out, you've got to make the most of those 18 characters. Yes, pictures are SUPER important, but I think maybe the first 18 characters of that description are as well.
I'm going to start using a site like Letter Counter, which tells me the exact number of characters in that title, so I can be sure that potential customers get all the goods up front.
Don't forget that whatever words you have in your title *will end up being searched for. So please feel free to add on after what you've put in those first 18 words. But I'm willing to bet thinking about how to use those first 18 words effectively will be really helpful.
After the Vintage Heaven sale in Wicker Park Jayson and I did some serious evaluating of our friendship up to this point, you know like; do you like my new glasses? You owe me twenty dollars? I can’t stop thinking about your wife, is this going to be a problem? Do you think we should start selling clothes?
Well the answer to the last question is yes, Manly Vintage will start having men’s clothes available, at least at the next Vintage Heaven and Vintage Bazaar. Nothing against chicks selling men’s clothing if done right, but from what I’ve seen it has been poor selection and quality; we had one seller admit at Vintage Heaven she literally grabs stuff for guys without even looking. You know, and damn it, those fashion obsessed male hipsters deserve better than that.
I don’t know what will happen in our individual online shops, and I have tried to sell some clothes before with little success, there are some guidelines I’m going to stick to. Like modeling the clothes myself, or one of the other hot married dudes I know. Also to never look like those virgin douche bags modeling men’s clothes on sites like Etsy…I guess that’s it. So lets review 1) model the clothes, no shirt on a hanger, on a wall 2) model in a way that does not suggest I go home at night to a bottle of lotion, but to a wife who has dinner ready when I get home.
I don't know why it took me so long to find this shop, its completely awesome. Based in Brooklyn NY, this shop has a manly mix of preppy vintage clothes, collectibles, technology, and home goods.
Sorry Mike, you're not making your creepy catch phrase, "I'm gonna pop on that!" sound normal. It still sounds completely freaky to me. But maybe I just have a sick, completely juvenile brain. The ladies who hang out at the Vintage Rescue squad, of course, do not see it that way at all. What can I say.
Frankly, it means that estate sales are awesome, and particularly estate sales run by Antique Kitchen are awesome. If you ever run across an estate sale ad, and you're not sure if you should go, and it says, "Antique Kitchen", go. She has awesome sales and very reasonable prices. I got this entire set for $6. SIX DOLLARS. Eat that Wal-Mart.
Morgan and I had a great time last week at the Vintage Heaven sale at the Heaven gallery. We met some really nice sellers, buyers, and even made a few bucks while we were there. We happened to be the only people selling home decor and home furnishing type stuff, but we still did well nonetheless. We learned from our Vintage Bazaar mistakes, and I think, improved on our booth.
Pro-tip #1 - Price your items with fancy things called, "stickers". Pro-tip #2 - Don't over clutter your booth. Pro-tip #3 - Pack a lunch (we learned that one this time and will be following through with the next sale)
Selling is a tiring thing. All day on your feet, loading and unloading, being cheerful. It takes a lot out of you. But I'll tell you what, nothing beats talking and interacting with customers. Whenever you make a sale, and you're able to tell the buyer a little bit about the history of what you're selling, it makes it all worth it.
We will definately be appearing at the next big sale they have, on July 31st and August 1st. Its during the Wicker Park fest, which should draw a huge crowd, and thus, more sales. We're going to try to start collecting clothes for guys as well.
Yeah I love putting "manly" at the beginning of everything on this website. It makes me feel manly. Anyways, I've been futzing with my yard all spring and throughout this summer. The backyard gets hardly any light at all. There are two giant trees that hang over the backyard, and one of them is growing through the floor of our garage and destroying its foundation. Its so bad, in fact, that the stucco and the bottom part of the foundation on the wall facing our house is literally just falling apart.
So I decided we needed some sort of bed of plants. Got some high shade, low water, awesomeness. Hopefully these plants will be able to survive our lack of a green thumb. I bought some two-by-fours screwed them together, stained them reddish, bought some bamboo, and BAM! Our garage doesn't look like its falling down anymore.
Oh and I built and stained a picnic table too. Of course it was from a kit, but I'm still manly because I had to drink beer and use an electric drill to complete the job.
File this under things that I learned today. Dorothy C. Thorpe was a Californian mid-century artist who popularized the glassware with the silver band around the top of the glass. You know, Don Draper Style.
I had been previously been searching for "ombre". Ombre, is technically "From a French term for "shaded," ombre is a color effect where the color gradually changes from light to dark over the item of clothing." These are ombre glasses: They look awesome, but not exactly what I'm looking for.
Much of what Dorothy Thorpe made seems to be a tad bit hideous, but she surely defined an era!
Search tips: mad men barware dorothy thorpe barware dorothy thorpe silver band dorothy thorpe silver top
So my wife is browsing the Mass Modern auction (hat tip to Katherine) just hanging out, and a particular modern chair about to be auctioned off for top dollar sticks out at her. Okay, I should say it SLAPS her across the face.
Its a Milo Baughman lounge chair made c. 1960. The auction site estimeates it at 1,000-1500 dollars.
Why does the chair slap her in the face? We have TWO chairs that look almost exactly like this and we bought them for TWENTY dollars each at the Salvation Army in Downer's Grove. Of course, at the time, we had no idea that they were knock-offs of a worthy chair.
The two hot dudes from Manly Vintage will be pushing vintage goods this Saturday at the Heaven Gallery in Wicker Park...wait a minute...THAT'S US! Come on by and buy some antique razors, throw some high fives, and step outside with us for a smoke.
We're gonna be trying some crazy new ideas this time around, our first vintage market experience at the Vintage Bazaar was somewhat of a serious systems malfunction, so we're doing things different, LIKE HAVING PRICE TAGS! I'm also setting up at home beforehand so I don't have full boxes of crap underneath the tables, and I will eat breakfast and have coffee before I head out Saturday. Did I say crap? I meant recycled treasures. ha.
