Funny Ebay Search Stats
5,939 "unique" vintage clothing items found on Ebay.
Which is amusing because at 5,939, there are more "unique" items than "rare" items, which clocked in at 5,726.
Ebay's search tool is essential to finding good vintage. It does take a bit of work to know how to tweak a search to find what you want, as vintage clothing sellers uncounted (at least by me) offer vintage gems incomparable.
There are a lot of overused adjectives, nouns, and phrases in vintage fashion listings. Some have evolved to be keywords and were effective, but have lost efficacy when sellers mindlessly clamber aboard a good thing, regardless of whether it really applies to her or his 1920s evening gown, 1950s retro purse, or Edwardian parasol. There's a lot more vintage clothing kicking around from the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s (you get the idea), so the competition between sellers can be fierce, because it's more of a buyers market. "Description abuse" occurs more frequently with these decades.
Other Ebay vintage miracles
But Ebay is a large venue, after all. So perhaps we shouldn't be surprised to see 600 "couture" items. Nor 36 "haute couture" items. Or 95 items of "museum quality."
Yes, I'm belaboring the point here, to make my point. I know that a seller could legitimately use the phrase "haute couture" to describe a certain type of fashion in order to compare a well-made garment in his/her possession ("couture details," for example, to describe a polished level of construction).
But I think you know what I'm getting at here.
There's a proliferation of certain words that (in some cases) adulterate the power of those words. Take these few...
This is a perennial topic among vinties, but I would like to give a hat tip to these stats, for the visual inspiration.
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