Everyday life with vintage style - Mother & Daughter tell

The customer portraits are an inspiration to all our customers. Today it is Denize and her mother Vivi who talk about how they came up with Mondo Kaos and the vintage style, and what inspires them. Denize also gives a few good tips on how to dress in the vintage style, even in a busy everyday life with children and work/education. And from mother Vivi, we get wonderful tips from a pro who has had her own clothing design company herself.

Name : Denize Thejl, 32 years old, currently on maternity leave - previously trained and worked as a dental hygienist but changed courses and am training to become a primary school teacher (mathematics-nature/technology-visual arts).

Vivi Theil, 62 years old, job in the jewelery industry - previously in the 80s a clothing designer with her own company in Aarhus under the name "Vivi Theil design".

How long have you been a customer?

Exactly since 18 May 2019, when I bought my first dress from Unique Vintage in navy with white dots physically in the store. It was on an excursion to KBH on the occasion of a family visit. However, I had been longing for your clothes on your webshop for a long time, but as a resident of Jutland, the store was far away.

Ever since then, we (my mother and I) have enjoyed a lot shopping at your webshop - which is just as good and recommendable an experience as it was physically in the store.

Denize and mother Vivi in ​​Mondo Kaos after the first visit.

How did you find the store, Mondo Kaos?

In connection with the fact that I was looking for repro clothes on the internet to investigate the selection in Denmark. I was inspired by a computer game that I love, in the style of the 1950s . Now I just needed to find a store with similar clothes.

I quickly fell in love with your selection - especially the dresses (I'm a HUGE dress fan) - and then also made my mother fall in love with your selection (I must have talked quite a lot about you 😉 ). She is also a big fan of the dresses .

But personally, I think it can be difficult in today's Denmark with family, job/education, etc. Something I have done recently, to make this a little easier for myself, is to put all my clothes in sets - for example a skirt and a top (possibly 2 tops if you can't choose) - so it's easy and quickly to find out when, for example, you have a small barn owl running around the legs of a 05 in the morning ❤️ It has helped me a lot.

It also helps you avoid unnecessary purchases, so you have an overview of what you have and what you lack in terms of clothing or accessories - or something completely new that you don't have any of.

For new customers in the store, I find the customer reviews and your daily inspiration photos on Instagram/Facebook wonderful to be inspired by. I myself have been inspired by a lot of this - so it's a good place to start by getting new ideas for styling that you might not have thought of yourself. For example I was personally skeptical about trying swing dresses because I was afraid it wouldn't suit me, but seeing other women who resembled myself in body shape gave me the courage to give it a try - and I haven't regretted it 😊 And I also dared to put a little more colors together than I would have done before.

My mother's styling tips are to start by choosing a dress and buy e.g. a cardigan for this. You can then find, for example, a shirt and skirt / trousers that can also be used for the cardigan . This way you have several sets that fit together and that you can mix and match. Accessories can then spice it up or down, depending on the occasion for which it is to be used. When you buy some new clothes in the future, you can supplement the new clothes with the previous sets, so that you always feel that you have some new sets of clothes to choose from.

We love Denize's and Vivi's styling tips, which make the wardrobe more manageable, and give good ideas on how to start your vintage-style wardrobe, and not least, build up a wardrobe so that you get the most out of it. A huge thank you! Also a special thank you for being allowed to have a look at Vivi's creations from the past, and we are proud to have escaped through the eye of a real clothing connoisseur.

We think it was wonderful to have the chance to 'meet' Denize and Vivi and to get to know them better, thank you for the beautiful photos, the always fantastic product reviews and for this inspiring portrait.

Sincerely,

Team Mondo Chaos