OffbeatVintage all began about 13 years ago in a backyard with a crudely constructed runway and a dress featuring dinosaurs on skateboards. Yep you read that right, this awesome little shop had some meager beginnings and I bet you're now saying "Dinosaurs on skateboards, I must know more!" and so the story of Offbeatvintage's humble beginning...
Since I was little I romped around in my mothers vintage clothes and collected anything tattered that was older than me. Torn, stained, or all out destroyed I was determined to make it into something awesome. Some growing up time went by and my skills of fixing and finding also grew. I had this fabulous thought that I could bring every offbeat girl something great and different to wear and let her unique personality shine. And of course the only way to do that was to construct a lovely, er hideous plywood runway in the backyard of my mom's house. My upcycled and true vintage clothing was paraded down that wooden plank for a crowd of girls in an epic runway show. It was the highlight of my teenage years when that one great dress, yep you guessed it, the dinosaurs on skateboards print circle skirt creation, was sold to Sue, the rocker chick with the blue hair! I laugh now when I think about the unsafe runway that killed my poor moms lawn and how selling one dress made weeks of work worth it!
Now years later I still make and restore vintage clothing and accessories from my own workshop and love every second of it. I live my dream of bringing one of a kind clothes and accessories to all the offbeat girls who proudly rock something different from the norm!