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Y'all need to get your behinds out to the Vintage Bazaar. If the last Vintage Bazaar is any indication, its going to be epic. Lots of cool vintage stuff, beer, pies, music. Its this Sunday from 12-7 at the Congress Theater.

Late 1930s, Chicago made goodness. She'll be there, along with a bunch of other awesome vintage goodness, at the Vintage Bazaar, this Sunday. Be there or frankly, be a regular quadrilateral. (And yes, I have been keeping her in my room. Where else do you keep a smoking hot thing like this?)

Morgan and I just returned from selling our wares at the Vintage Heaven sale. We had a blast, and met a lot of really great people. We decided to give out our first ever set of awards. (trust me there will be more fun, watch out Vintage World).

And now the winners!

Four Eyes

David was stunning in his "fake" retro glasses. He works in the advertising industry and says its almost a "cliche" that he watches Mad Men.

Creepiest Mustache

When we saw Matthew, we knew he was the winner. I was just a little afraid that he would try to punch me when I offered him the trophy. He was a good sport, but borderline offended. I meant nothing but love, brother, nothing but love. He came back and gave me his card. "Chicago Mustache League". These guys are hardcore about their facial hair (as it should be). Truly epic mustache and epic pose.

Random Bored Guy

Shopping is a funny thing. As a guy, I don't mind shopping for stuff that interests me. Put me in a video game store, Home Depot, or a Thrift Store and I can handle myself. Put me in a room full of mostly girl's clothing and I tend to get all nervous and twitchy. I become the "random bored guy." Emiliano was doing well, but sitting very bored waiting for his wife to finish shopping. He was sitting there on the couch with that depressed look on his face and I knew that he needed a major award to cheer him up.

Hey, Nice Shirt!

Most epic shirt ever. Completely inappropriate and yet hilarious. Cornelius was awesome when he won the award, screaming, and laughing.

Best Tattoo

We saw A LOT of tattoos at the Vintage Heaven sale. Lots of cool and elaborate designs. But Mike won this award because his tattoo is simple, yet awesome. Eagles are awesome. America is awesome. An American flag being carried aloft by a flying eagle is just so damn subtle and brilliant, we love it.

Please check out some of Mike's other stuff at Six Pack Vintage. Awesome stuff. Tattoo done by MCC Designed

Tomorrow, at the Vintage Heaven sale in Wicker Park, Manly Vintage will be awarding six very special individuals with six very special awards. Who doesn't want a major award?

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:

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.

Morgan's:

Jayson's

Who has the most appealing bowling pin?

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.

I told my oldest daughter, who can read, that we don't say this word. I think she understood. I took it off when were we went into the ice cream shop.

This hat cost me 50¢

Thank you Colleen of Colleen's Estate sales.

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.

Some of my favorites:

Lacoste Harrington Jacket

Motocross Toolbox

Kitchen Scale

You can follow the exploits of Brian, and Wooden Sleepers on his twitter page.

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.