(COLORADO SPRINGS) — Community members came together in downtown Colorado Springs for a monthly celebration of all things vintage and vinyl. The event was held at a local food hall and hosted a DJ and more than 20 unique vendors.
As the school year is coming to an end, and graduation season is in full swing, organizers made Sunday’s, May 18 theme, ‘beauty school dropout,’ and some people dressed to the theme while others enjoyed some shopping, including permanent jewelry, hair sparkles, and unique artwork from the local vendors.
“I’ve always loved the groovy aesthetics,” said Paige Wold, the owner of Paige Vintage.
The vibes were electric at Coati in Colorado Springs, with community members gathering to enjoy music and support local businesses and artists.
“It’s kind of the outliers, the misfits, kind of like the funky cool style, which is what we encourage here. We want people to dress up, have fun, and just kind of step out of their shell and come hang out with us,” said Erica Rose, the co-owner of Vintage and Vinyl and the event organizer.
‘Beauty school dropout’ was the theme for this month, and people were encouraged to dress in fifties clothes. Wold decided to wear exactly that; she wore a red polka dot dress and paired it with white go-go boots.
Over twenty local vendors attended the event to show off their unique crafts, one vendor selling skeleton-shaped lotion bars, while others upcycled clothing.
“I think I do a lot more like nineties Y2K stuff clothing-wise now, but my heart and soul are in the sixties and seventies decor,” said Wold, one of the vendors at the event.
She said she began her love for upcycling when she was just fourteen years old.
“It’s really cool when you come to a place like this and all of these local artists, whether it’s handmade goods or vintage vendors, they’re curating something that is a reflection of them, and I feel like it just makes it easier to spend your money on it,” she said.
Alongside all of the unique vendors were thousands of vinyls for music lovers to sort through; they even got to listen to some of the music as they shopped from a live DJ who played remixes of old favorites that had people grooving.
“We always have a live DJ, we have DJ Gravity spinning actual records on the stage, lots of people selling records, selling vintage, selling upcycled,” said Rose.
If you missed Sunday’s fun and want to check it out, their next event will be on June 22nd, and the theme will be a seventies pride theme that their calling ‘field of love.’
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