A few years before online commerce and elected officials made vintage buying more frictionless, the fair was angling to become the meeting place for designers and fashion sourcers filling their archives (or those of their employers). It was done cagily, either on eBay or in person at storage sales and at flea markets. This would have been around 2012, when vintage buying and collecting, as a hobby, was still mostly practiced by artists, the indigent, and fashion workers. A sort of Comic Con for old clothes, the event was held in a small rented events space on 18th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues. Two years before I started an online newsletter about obscure vintage clothing-and a decade before I published a book collecting 100 editions of that newsletter-I went to the first or second iteration of the Inspiration vintage fair in New York.
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