About Tea Time Vintage 🤍

Tea Time Vintage is a curated vintage shop built around personal style, sustainability, and the idea that clothing can be deeply connected to how we feel.

“Tea Time” originally started as the name of my podcast, which focused on storytelling, human connection, and honest conversations about life and identity. Over time, the name naturally became part of me, and eventually it found its way into this space too.

I’ve loved vintage for over twenty years. I’ve always been drawn to things that felt expressive, unusual, well-made, or like they carried some kind of story with them. But the idea for this shop really started taking shape more recently as I began exploring my style in a completely different way.

As I've gotten older, I found myself experimenting more with fashion, trying things I never would have worn before, and paying closer attention to how clothing actually made me feel. Some things made me feel more confident. Some made me feel softer, bolder, more grounded, more creative, or more like myself. I started realizing that fashion can be emotional, nostalgic, comforting, empowering, and deeply tied to identity.

At the same time, I unintentionally started building a collection.

Not because I was trying to start a business, but because I kept finding things I connected with. Over time, it became less about shopping and more about curation... learning what I loved, what felt timeless, what felt special, and what deserved another chance instead of sitting forgotten somewhere.

The dream of having my own store has existed in some form since my son Ethan was little, but the vision evolved over the years into something much more personal than I originally imagined.

When my mom tells me I’m dressed like her mother in the 70s, I genuinely take it as a compliment. My Oma, Alice, was my person.

She had a huge influence on how I see clothing, beauty, and sustainability, even before I fully understood them myself. She believed in taking care of things, reusing what still had life in them, and respecting what she would call “our mother, Mother Earth.” Long before sustainability became branding or marketing language, it was simply the way she lived.

I think that perspective stayed with me more than I realized growing up. That’s part of why vintage feels so meaningful to me now. These garments already carry memory, personality, and history. There’s something really special about giving them another chance to be worn, loved, and connected to someone new.

The collection reflects a little bit of everything I love — dramatic outerwear, feminine silhouettes, bold prints, soft textures, strange pieces, timeless pieces, and things that maybe shouldn’t work together but somehow do.

I think, more than anything, Tea Time Vintage is about connection — to ourselves, to the past, and to the stories we continue to carry forward.

I’m really excited to share this collection with you, and I hope you find pieces here that make you feel as good as they made me feel when I found them.

— Tara (aka Tea Time) 🖤