About VINTAGE LADIES COLLECTION

Social Media isn’t new, people have always wanted to stay in touch, but from the late 1800s they did it with gorgeous lithographed, often somewhat hectically hand-tinted images on cards printed by the thousand for every occasion you can imagine. As well as commercially produced greetings, people were also heading to photographic studios for portraits or staged shots, buying extra copies to send to family and friends who were interested, as well as to those who probably weren’t at all! When, several years back, I set up a business buying and selling antique books and prints it soon became clear that the buying was by far outpacing the selling. Fascinated and hooked, I spent an inordinate amount of time ferreting in cobwebbed attic corners, and when copy lines for images presented themselves, I found adding them to be endlessly therapeutic because they made me laugh. By then, I was also setting up a copywriting business, so was able to justify and utilise my ever-increasing photographic collection as quirky business branding. The Vintage Ladies made others laugh, too, brought in lots of business, and eventually evolved by popular demand into a range of gift books. And yes, writing new lines still keeps me scarily cheerful! This is my first venture into wholesale. If there’s information I’ve missed or books you’d like to see added to the range, do drop me a line, you know your customers better than I do, so all input gratefully received. ***Read their story