About Us
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 off her slacks, then turns around and builds her own future.
Vintage Vera's was born in a little town in Northeast Ohio — manifested from dreams of living a self-sufficient life and have some fun doing it. Everything we do from service to design is an act of intention to never forget “how well that old chair was built” or where the slang term "ring their neck" came from or the places, people, and experiences that have made us laugh, cry, feel, and remember the stories we tell today.
This isn't fast fashion. This is slow, deliberate, unapologetic making, building, and fixing with our hands. VV’s 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 to never once let the world tell her who she is and gives her strength to push on every time.
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.
Lucy working the line in Southeast Indiana. She wasn't just an employee - she was celebrated and she was featured in the company newsletter, Remarks of Merit: Voice of the Employees, for outstanding work. A woman who showed up, excelled, and did it all with that particular brand of quiet, unshakeable dignity.
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 with her hands, and her will, and her particular brand of grace.
Lucy dusted herself off when she had to on more than one occasion. She did what needed to be done for her two girls, who would ultimately create 17+ strong and independent woman alive and well today between the two of them, these women, all cut from the same cloth, spanning 3 states.
"As the story goes, Beanie played a mean Trombone in a Big Band in Chicago and his band played for AL Capone at a downtown Chicago hotel 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”.