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Permalink Reply by My Svensk on December 18, 2012 at 8:06am

I live in the north of Sweden in a city called "Skellefteå", but I spend most of my time in Östersund where my boyfriend lives:)

Here it's not very uncommon with pinup and rockabilly but I often gets looks, and older men is crazy about me in pin up (little bit scary actually)

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Permalink Reply by Shy Anne on December 18, 2012 at 10:40am

I live in the Netherlands and while it is NOT okay to wear vintage on a daily basis (you will be the center of all disapproving attention) LOL I've actually had people come up to me and tell me that I have to stop being a child of Satan and so on... but that was some weird guy , most of them are nice or more polite about it (and I was wearing nothing more risque than a Jessica with a pair of heels and a belt with my hair done up) 

On the other hand if you go to the little festivals and so vintage is pretty much embraced. You see lots of hell bunny and Voodoo Vixen, very little pug but I guess it's hard to come by here :) 

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Permalink Reply by Tess on January 16, 2013 at 1:12am

Hey Harlow,

Sorry I'm so late on the uptake with this discussion. I just had to jump in and say that I recognise you from Uni, we had an Australian Film tutorial together. You always looked so glamourous!

I have to agree with you about people staring but I feel most of the time it's not meant as insulting but because what we wear is out of the ordinary. I do get compliments though and it's nice to know that you look good especially after commiting to wearing a petticoat on a Brisbane summer's day! I, like Cela, find that I often get compliments after reminding older people of their youth. My favourite compliment was when an elderly lady stopped me at the supermarket. She told me she had to let me know that her husband thought my dress was pretty and that so few young women wore classy dresses these days.

I've never put a whole lot of stock in what other people thought about what I wear and love to dress this way because it makes me feel good.

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Permalink Reply by Suzanne Grazyna on January 22, 2013 at 10:25pm

I live in Fresno California. USA. We have every kind of style here. But our summers get superhot, 115 degrees hot, so I'd say a majority of people wear shorts and tees/tanks/hoochie tops. I try to avoid the sun as much as possible so I don't tan :)

My love (lost) was in a Rockabilly band. I'm not really Rockabilly, I'm more vintage, but we still matched each other. Le sigh.

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Permalink Reply by April Wustrow on January 23, 2013 at 8:23am

Central North Carolina, close to Raleigh, by way of the mountains of Virginia. Hillbilly all the way!

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Permalink Reply by Ellie Mae Berry on April 1, 2013 at 4:29pm

I'm from Connecticut, which I've heard has a HUGE vintage/rockabilly scene. 
But I currently live in Florida (eugh) and there is NOTHING PUGgy about it. I'm the only one who ever dresses remotely vintage and I always get nasty looks or perverted ones. 
But I don't let that stop me from looking glamorous whenever I can!

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