Each week, 'Dresscue Me' will follow the self taught vintage fashion maven on her quest to change women's lives forever by connecting them to style. The show will also get up close and personal into the behind the scenes of the vintage fashion business. Before there was ever a 'Shareen Vintage', Shareen Mitchell was a self proclaimed jack of all trades and did whatever she had to in order to make ends meet. This included everything from cleaning houses to babysitting round the clock for neighbors. She even tried her hand at being a thespian for awhile, and has a lengthy resume on IMDB as a bit part actress on quite a few t.v. series. In 2003 she decided to go into vintage retail and began her search for rare clothing finds as her passion for fashion grew. She opened her shop Shareen's Vintage in a warehouse in downtown L.A. and set it up like a home with furniture which rendered a comfy vibe to the aesthetics. A lack of dressing rooms is the reason she put a 'No Boys Allowed' sign in the front shop window...
In Shareen's vintage warehouse there are no two pieces alike and the really good stuff is said to get ripped from the racks rather quickly. Everyone wants first dibs on her one of a kind gems! She hand picks each new 'old' piece and brings it back to life by cleaning, steaming, mending and sometimes altering to bring each find up to par with current trends. I was really surprised after visiting her website online at www.shareenvintage.com to see that even given her cult status as vintage fashionista extraordinaire, her goods that range from the 1920's to the 1990's are extremely affordable!
Being proprietors of vintage couture, all of us here at Retro Threadz are looking forward to the first episode of 'Dresscue Me'! Make sure you check it out!
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