About Vintage Vera's

VINTAGE VERA'S Northeast, Ohio


Where working-class roots meet handmade and refurbished rebellion.

WHO IS VERA

She's not a persona. She’s not a character someone invented. She's the version of yourself you become when you stop apologizing for taking up space. She's what happens when a woman stops for a second, wipes away her tears, dusts herself off, then turns around and builds her own future. 
Vintage Vera's was born in a little town in Northeast Ohio — manifested from a corporate layoff, taking a chance on a dream of living a self-sufficient lifestyle and having some fun doing it.

Vera is inspired by many people, but unbeknownst to her throughout her life, one person has never stopped looking out for her, and often whispers in her ear still today to never once let the world tell her who she is, her memory lives on and gives her strength to push on every time.

Everything we do, from design to customer service is an act of intention, the intention is to remember what makes us feel good and to never forget about the places, people, and experiences that have made us what we are today.

This isn't fast fashion. This is slow, deliberate, unapologetic making, building, and fixing with our hands, maybe its a design on a new t-shirt, or a once cherished rocking chair refurbished to live on to become someones new treasure, or something new for family and friends to come together to make new memories in the backyard this summer. 

THE SOUL BEHIND THE BRAND

Her name was Lucy. 

And boy she was something else. Not just strong — though Lord knows she was that too. She was the kind of woman who dressed up for Christmas, sat on the living room floor in a beaded black dress, and could communicate her feelings without saying a single word.

Woman working behind a counter with a sign reading 'Remarks on Merit' in the background.

Lucy worked the line at Schenley Glass in Southeast Indiana when her husband was called to serve in the War, raising their two daughters on her own. She wasn't just an employee - she was celebrated and was featured in the company newsletter, "Remarks of Merit: Voice of the Employees", for her dedication and outstanding work. A woman who showed up, excelled, and did it all with a particular brand of quiet, unshakable dignity, and grace.

She married Lloyd (Beanie) W. Sargent on a Thursday night in March of 1937 — the paper announced it. They moved to Lawrenceburg, IN to start their family. Beanie left us too soon, but Lucy would continue to build their lives for her girls with her hands, and her will, and her particular brand of grace. 

- On Legends 

"As the story goes, before the War, Beanie played a mean Trombone a member of the house band at a well-known hotel in downtown Chicago, it's been said that his band played for AL Capone often and where he would also meet Lucy one day".

- On Lucy                                                                                                                                                      "She wasn't the loudest woman in the room. She was the one the room remembered, and she is a Legend”.