New locally made, revamped vintage clothes are all about community

A year ago, Karen Freed was showing Sanni Baumgaertner some advanced sewing techniques in exchange for vintage clothes Baumgaertner found in shops around town.

A year later, their bartering has produced a new fashion line - and a new concept for Athens.

Freed and Baumgaertner will debut their Community Service line Saturday at the Athens Fashion Show at Ciné. Michael Lachowski, who is organizing the show with 6-by-6 Media Arts, learned of the line and thought it would make for the perfect headliner.

The clothes - all of them vintage and refurbished and reworked into something new - soon will be up for sale at Baumgaertner's new vintage clothing store, Community, located downtown on Jackson Street, above Espresso Royale Cafe.

"There's an aspect of sustainability," Baumgaertner said. "We're using beautiful, well-made things. A lot of modern fashion takes cues from vintage already.

"We wanted to start with vintage."

Even before they met, both women dreamed of starting up such a clothing line. When they got together to sew, they always worked on revamping old clothes.

"It was so much fun doing it," Baumgaertner said. "The idea of the store and the line just came together."

Freed had a revamped vintage line on her mind for years, but her day job as a costume designer for movies and TV shows always kept her too busy. But

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