On Friday, 140 W. Franklin St. hosted the Chapel Hill Vintage Market, featuring food, music, a beer truck and 15 vintage clothing vendors.
Market founder and UNC alumna Haylee Frazier was a rising senior at UNC when she discovered her love for vintage clothing. As her passion grew, she decided that Chapel Hill deserved its own vintage market, where people with the same interest in fashion could find unique pieces.
“There's a couple that take place in Durham and cater toward Duke students,” she said. “There's a couple that take place in Raleigh, there's one on State's campus — and I was like ‘Chapel Hill is cool enough. It has cool-ass students. We need to make this happen.’”
She said that the Chapel Hill Vintage Market is a one-woman show, with Frazier acting as the founder and organizer of each event. She hosted the first Chapel Hill Vintage Market in March of this year, placing roughly 20 vendors on the quad between Carolina Square and Granville Towers.
The market later moved to its current location, and over the summer Downtown Chapel Hill approached Frazier about hosting Fridays on Franklin, a Friday market before every home football game.
Last Friday's event was the first of many Fridays on Franklin set to occur between Sept. 6 and the last home football game day on Nov. 30. After this date, Chapel Hill Vintage Market will return once each month.
Frazier said that throughout the coming weeks, Chapel Hill Vintage Market will rotate vendors, aiming to have something for everyone throughout the season. She said customers will not have the same experience twice.
UNC medical student Benjamin Silver, who was at Friday's market, praised the selection of local vendors.
“I think it's just really cool to have a community of local vendors selling, especially with a lot of UNC-themed stuff right before game day,” he said.
