Cate Blanchett wearing an old dress to the Venice Film Festival, where she’s doing a tour of duty as a judge.Note the linguistic distinctions here.
This is not a vintage dress – although in past years, even a two-year-old outfit has sometimes qualified as vintage. In the current moral maelstrom however, wearing vintage might not seem quite as heroic as it did five minutes ago, given how extremely pricey and new-to-you vintage can be.No, we’re talking old – albeit not really old.
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