What to know before you buy vintage-style LED light bulbs

You'll find all sorts of light bulbs in your local lighting aisle, but more and more, we're seeing bulbs that fall under labels like vintage-style. The pitch for lights like these is pretty simple: new-age LED efficiency paired with old-school incandescent looks, right down to the fake LED "filaments" inside of the bulb. Vintage-style bulbs started out as a nostalgic novelty for folks who weren't ready to say goodbye to the incandescent bulbs getting phased out by rising energy standards, but with big names like GE, Philips, Feit and others jumping in with the trend, they've become a legitimate category of their own. These days, most lighting aisles afford them their own, dedicated section.