Thankfully the people who think altering items and selling them without any honest disclosure and under the guise of being unaltered (though they can never explain why the deception is necessary if it does not matter and no one cares) are still just a very vocal and motivated minority in vintage. On the plus side it gives a good list of names not to buy from or sell to for those that don't want to be party to the fraud and/or misrepresentation.
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