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Vintage Threads Like You've Never Seen Before PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Kaela Webb   
Saturday, 12 September 2009 01:12

Of course you know that everyone here at Lipstick Vogue is coo-coo for vintage, but we're even more extreme than you think.

NPR News just published this article on a discovery of 30,000 year old vintage threads, the oldest known in existence.

This is exciting for us mostly because this was a time when early humans were savvy enough to be artists in other mediums and many suspect that these threads were nothing more than a fashion statement.  Afterall, they had plenty of pelts to keep them warm, but what fashion minded person would rather wear a pelt than turquoise or pink dyed linen!  Well, ok, maybe it wasn't exactly linen.  Researchers say it was probably more like some macarame, like those hippie necklaces, but super ancient.

It's getting us to think about whether we should consider a new design in linen...