# Retro Fashion-Where to Buy?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/retro-fashion-where-to-buy/111329>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 29, 2002, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/retro-fashion-where-to-buy/111329 "2002-05-29T12:08:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/retro-fashion-where-to-buy/111329/1 "2002-05-29T12:08:12Z")

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I really like the men’s clothes from the late 1940’s-early 1950’s…but these seem to be hard to find! I am particularly interested in getting a jacket of the type worn by the late Howard Hughes-this is a sport jacket with contrasting material on the fron-anybody know where I could find such a piece of vintage clothing? I’ve tried all of the local dealers-nobody has this item!😃

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**Author:** ![sirjamesp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@sirjamesp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirjamesp)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/retro-fashion-where-to-buy/111329/2 "2002-05-29T12:12:01Z")

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Have you tried charity shops?

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**Author:** ![cybersnark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9e5f3/32.png) [@cybersnark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cybersnark)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/retro-fashion-where-to-buy/111329/3 "2002-05-29T12:24:21Z")

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You also might look at eBay; they have a special category for vintage clothing. Here’s the URL:

[http://listings.ebay.com/aw/glistings/list/all/category14063/index.html](http://listings.ebay.com/aw/glistings/list/all/category14063/index.html)

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**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/retro-fashion-where-to-buy/111329/4 "2002-05-29T14:48:50Z")

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**ralph** , if you got money to burn, I highly recommend heading over to [www.zootsuitstore.com](http://www.zootsuitstore.com) and check out the threads. You can’t get much sharper than this.