Credit: (money signs) Jim Legans, Jr Flickr Commons / (vintage tag) AForestFrolic Flickr Commons
When deciding how to price vintage clothing, sellers should consider multiple factors before placing resale value on a particular garment.
Just because you love a particular piece of clothing doesn’t mean it will sell at a value equivalent to your appreciation of it. Take my obsession of sequins for example: I may be comfortable spending more money on sequins because that’s my favorite vintage style, but that doesn’t mean I should assume everyone else will invest their dollar similarly.
Rather than subjectively price your vintage merchandise based on what you like alone, I believe that determining the most accurate price guide for selling vintage clothing depends on objective evaluation of 7 key variables involving the garment’s era, purchase cost, trend, quality, availability, designer and season of sale.
Keep reading after the jump for my 7 secrets to pricing vintage clothing, including advice on how to gauge the resale value of a vintage garment based on the piece’s era, trend, quality, availability and designer along with how much you paid for it and the season you plan to sell it.




