# Everything Is Vintage If You Wait Long Enough - With Shaun, Jon & Nick (#161)

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Podcast: [Garmology - A podcast about clothes, and stuff.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/garmology-a-podcast-about-clothes-and-stuff-931098)
Published: 2025-12-19T14:05:08+00:00
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## Resource

In this festive roundtable episode, Nick, Jon, and Shaun gather to complain — politely — about modern shopping, resale platforms, and the strange reality of buying your own clothes back years later from a charity shop. They talk eBay deliveries that arrive whenever they feel like it, Vinted’s takeover of second-hand culture, AI-written listings that say nothing, and heritage brands that now come with a geography quiz. Along the way, there’s boiled wool, duffle coats, social media fatigue, and the realisation that the internet has slowly turned into a badly lit shopping centre. It’s a warm, funny, slightly grumpy end-of-year chat about clothes, trust, and why keeping one good thing for 20 years might still be the most radical idea of all. Festive, thoughtful, and lightly exasperated — just as intended. Featuring Shaun Brown and Jon Fowler, aka @these_rough_notes and @HeavyJon on Instagram. Early reviews of this episode are mixed, so your listening pleasure is uncertain: Tortoise Trends commented, «We appreciate the slow pace of the proceedings». VintageWear Weekly gushingly praised «At least they don’t mention whiffy vintage garms this time!» Giffnock Advertiser noted, «Local celeb Shaun gets properly stuck into the proceedings and we love it.» Stationary Engine Magazine said, «These guys sound like our kind of people.“ Teddy Bear Times said, «Gets a bit boring in the middle then better at the end.“ The Country Smallhold said, “They dress for the occasion but are they up to it?” Business of Fashion stated, «Clearly our days of shilling for the man are over, all hail the three kings.» Gentleman’s Quarterly: «A laidback and comfortably paced chat perfect for accompanying the preparation of sprouts». Amateur Carp Fishing Monthly said, “ It’s not really our thing.“ Carnoust…

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