Best Vintage Clothing

How Sweet It Was

READERS' PICK: No matter what your favorite era, How Sweet It Was, located in a sweet old-timey lime-green bungalow, has something irresistible for you, at an unbeatable price. Recent finds include a bias cut black silk slip from the 1940s that makes us feel like a screen siren, a tasty little crocheted hippiechick skirt from the '70s, and that amazing matelassée silver party dress with the little crystal chandelier deelybobbers trembling all over it. Everything is one of a kind, so if you see something you like, seize the moment and buy it now; our dreams are still haunted by that little black-and-white phonecord purse that got away.