A vintage label field guide
Read the tag.
Date the garment.
Know its worth.
A label is a dense data packet — a registration number, a union mark, a fibre name, a row of stitching. The Thrift Tag Directory turns those markers into provenance you can act on.
A BATHING APE•ABE SCHRADER•ABERCROMBIE & FITCH•ADELE SIMPSON•ADIDAS•ADOLPH SCHUMAN•AÉROPOSTALE•AIR JORDAN•AJD•ALBERT NIPON•ALBERTA FERRETTI•ALCOTT•ALEX COLMAN•ALEXANDER MCQUEEN•ALLSAINTS•ALPHA INDUSTRIES•AMERICAN EAGLE•AND1•ANN DEMEULEMEESTER•ANN SUMMERS•A BATHING APE•ABE SCHRADER•ABERCROMBIE & FITCH•ADELE SIMPSON•ADIDAS•ADOLPH SCHUMAN•AÉROPOSTALE•AIR JORDAN•AJD•ALBERT NIPON•ALBERTA FERRETTI•ALCOTT•ALEX COLMAN•ALEXANDER MCQUEEN•ALLSAINTS•ALPHA INDUSTRIES•AMERICAN EAGLE•AND1•ANN DEMEULEMEESTER•ANN SUMMERS•
Start here
Identify a Garment
Work backwards from the tag, stitching, fibre, and hardware to an estimated era and a confidence rating.
Open the toolBrowse Brands
Label timelines for 362 documented brands across denim, workwear, heritage, and more.
Open the directoryReference Guides
Quick tables for RN numbers, union labels, fibre dates, care symbols, and construction markers.
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The archive in numbers
362
Brands documented
1603
Label eras mapped
6
Reference guides
15+
Decades spanned