Antique and Vintage Clothing

A love of vintage clothing can lead to a small home-based business. These old clothes are still easy to find and easy to resell them from home. Vintage, antique and used designer clothing has become very popular in recent years. Collectors are wearing these classic fashions from the past.

Rare pieces could earn their owners enough to cover a car or mortgage payment. Online auction houses show thousands of items everyday in these categories. Study those sites to get a sense of what to look for – what collectors are actually buying. With time and experience, the investor will learn the language of dress design, fabric and fashion. And there are also numerous books available on vintage clothing which will prove helpful.

Selling Vintage Clothing Online

Vintage clothing is a renewable resource and as products, they are still easily found on the cheap. Begin with a very small investment and experiment by listing it on an online auction site. Present the piece well. List all the details, measurements, label information, fabric type and flaws. Take excellent pictures without any fuzziness. Show the item at its best in a good clear manner. A dressmaker's dummy would be ideal.

Selling Vintage Clothing in a Consignment Store

Consignment clothing stores will happily accept good vintage pieces. They typically take thirty percent or more from the final retail price, so the consignee should set his or her prices accordingly. The consignor will check the item thoroughly for wear and note any flaws. These stores typically want items that people will wear, not simply own. It could take time for the item to sell. Three months sitting in a shop is long enough.

Fashion Periods of Note

Circa 1960 designer and mod dresses are highly sought after and fortunately still easy to find. Try to stay away from anything that screams 1980s. The '30s and '40s were great fashion decades, and those clothes are being worn as well as collected. Many dealers make this era their niche, but it's fine to mix it up.

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Maternity

We provide custom made bridal clothing, formal wear, wedding dresses, wedding gowns, and evening apparel for all sizes including plus and petites. Our stylish and affordable bridal and formal clothing can be worn to weddings and special occasions. We tailor maternity and non maternity versions of each style. This is ideal for bridal parties with both pregnant and non pregnant women.

Maternity

Maternity Wedding Gowns Maternity Bridesmaids & Formal Maternity Casual Maternity Career Maternity Evening

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Headpieces Accessories

We provide custom made bridal clothing, formal wear, wedding dresses, wedding gowns, and evening apparel for all sizes including plus and petites. Our stylish and affordable bridal and formal clothing can be worn to weddings and special occasions. We tailor maternity and non maternity versions of each style. This is ideal for bridal parties with both pregnant and non pregnant women.

Headpieces & Accessories

Veils & Headpieces

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Juicy Couture Clothes Images

Juicy Couture is has become a full line of casual apparel and is based in the West Coast of California. Juicy was originally founded by Gela Nash-Taylor and Pamela Skaist-Levy, but is now owned by the popular Liz Claiborne fashion company. Juicy became more well known as famous people were spotted around the world wearing their popular terry and velour track suits which say "Juicy" across the back of the pants.When Gela Nash and Pamela Skaist Levy first founded a company it specialized in maternity wear and was called Travis Jeans. This company had an amazing and successful line of incredibly comfortable maternity jeans that were stylish as well. Travis Jeans eventually evolved in to Juicy Couture which started out as a very unknown brand of high priced shirts.

When Juicy first hit the scene they focused on delivering the most fashionable, comfortable line of women's sweat suits and sports wear. Juicy Couture was so popular on the West Coast that they eventually expanded their line to extend a full line of women's apparel.
Juicy Couture is launching a line of yoga apparel called Down Dog Couture.the line will hit stores in time for the holidays. It will include "nylon camisoles, zip-up fleece jackets and fold-over waist pants in a range of styles." The clothing contains the Down Dog Couture logo and sayings like "Life is Juicy" and "Breathe/Relax." Prices for the collection range from $20 to $40.
“Italy in many ways is the epicenter of fashion and the European country that initially best responded to our product,” said Juicy Couture co-founder Gela Nash-Taylor. “We were so excited when we found out that we had a space on Via della Spiga, my favorite street in Milan, that I couldn’t stop jumping up and down.
The more popular the name became, the more they expanded their products. It was in 2002 that Juicy decided to offer their collections for both the men and children in your family. Juicy also offers different accessories and clothing for your dog including dog carriers, dog beds, leashes, toys, tags, collars, and different types of clothing.
Juicy's Clothing line is so popular that they even have their own Barbie doll which are of course wearing miniature Juicy Couture outfits and Juicy Couture Clothing Barbiecarry their own juicy logo shopping bags. When you have a Barbie doll adorning
Juicy Couture, the stereotypical babeswear brand from The Golden State, expands into Europe with a 3,000 square-foot store in Milan.
“When Pam and I first came to Milan, we were mesmerized by the elegance of the women dressed in dark colors and with perfect accessories, but we think we can definitely put Juicy Couture on the map with its combination of L.A. glamour, universal fit and casual luxury,” said Nash-Taylor.

Whether Milan is ready to be babe-ified only time will tell.

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History of fashion..

Fashion, a general term for the style and custom prevalent at a given time, in its most common usage refers to costume or clothing style.

The more technical term, costume, has become so linked in the public eye with the term "fashion" that the more general term "costume" has in popular use mostly been relegated to special senses like fancy dress or masquerade wear, while the term "fashion" means clothing generally, and the study of it. This linguistic switch is due to the fashion plates which were produced during the Industrial Revolution, showing the latest designs.^{[citation needed]} For a broad cross-cultural look at clothing and its place in society, refer to the entries for clothing, costume and fabrics. The remainder of this article deals with clothing fashions in the Western world

The continually changing fashions of the West have been generally unparalleled either in antiquity or in the other great civilizations of the world until recent decades. Early Western travellers, whether to Persia, Turkey, Japan or China frequently remark on the absence of changes in fashion there, and observers from these other cultures comment on the unseemly pace of Western fashion, which many felt suggested an instability and lack of order in Western culture. The Japanese Shogun's secretary boasted (not completely accurately) to a Spanish visitor in 1609 that Japanese clothing had not changed in over a thousand years. However in Ming China, for example, there is considerable evidence for rapidly changing fashions in Chinese clothing.

Changes in costume often took place at times of economic or social change (such as in ancient Rome and the medieval Caliphate), but then a long period without large changes followed. This occurred in Moorish Spain from the 8th century, when the famous musician Ziryab introduced sophisticated clothing styles based on seasonal and daily timings from his native Baghdad and his own inspiration to Córdoba, Spain. changes in fashion occurred in the Middle East from the 11th century, following the arrival of the Turks who introduced clothing styles from Central Asia and the Far East.

The beginnings of the habit in Europe of continual and increasingly rapid change in styles can be fairly reliably dated to the middle of the 14th century, to which historians including James Laver and Fernand Braudel date the start of Western fashion in clothing. The most dramatic manifestation was a sudden drastic shortening and tightening of the male over-garment, from calf-length to barely covering the buttocks, sometimes accompanied with stuffing on the chest to look bigger. This created the distinctive Western male outline of a tailored top worn over leggings or trousers.

The pace of change accelerated considerably in the following century, and women and men's fashion, especially in the dressing and adorning of the hair, became equally complex and changing. Art historians are therefore able to use fashion in dating images with increasing confidence and precision, often within five years in the case of 15th century images. Initially changes in fashion led to a fragmentation of what had previously been very similar styles of dressing across the upper classes of Europe, and the development of distinctive national styles, which remained very different until a counter-movement in the 17th to 18th centuries imposed similar styles once again, finally those from Ancien Régime in France. Though the rich usually led fashion, the increasing affluence of early modern
Europe led to the
bourgeoisie and even peasants following trends at a distance sometimes uncomfortably close for the elites - a factor Braudel regards as one of the main motors of chang
ing fashion.



Marie Antoinette was a fashion icon..

Ten 16th century portraits of German or Italian gentlemen may show ten entirely different hats, and at this period national differences were at their most pronounced, as Albrecht Dürer recorded in his actual or composite contrast of Nuremberg and Venetian fashions at the close of the 15th century (illustration, right). The "Spanish style" of the end of the century began the move back to synchronicity among upper-class Europeans, and after a struggle in the mid 17th century, French styles decisively took over leadership, a process completed in the 18th century.

Though colors and patterns of textiles changed from year to year, the cut of a gentleman's coat and the length of his waistcoat, or the pattern to which a lady's dress was cut changed more slowly. Men's fashions largely derived from military models, and changes in a European male silhouette are galvanized in theatres of European war, where gentleman officers had Albrecht Dürer's drawin contrasts a well turneoutbourgeoisefromNuremberg (left) with counterpart from Venice. The Venetian lady's high chopines make her taller (About photo)

opportunities to make notes of foreign styles: an example is the "Steinkirk" cravat or necktie.

The pace of change picked up in the 1780s with the increased publication of French engravings that showed the latest Paris styles; though there had been distribution of dressed dolls from France as patterns since the 16th century, and Abraham Bosse had produced engravings of fashion from the 1620s. By 1800, all Western Europeans were dressing alike (or thought they were): local variation became first a sign of provincial culture, and then a badge of the conservative peasant.

Although tailors and dressmakers were no doubt responsible for many innovations before, and the textile industry certainly led many trends, the history of fashion design is normally taken to date from 1858, when the English-born Charles Frederick Worth opened the first true haute couture house in Paris. Since then the professional designer has become a progressively more dominant figure, despite the origins of many fashions in street fashion. The four major current fashion capitals are acknowleged to be Milan, New York City, Paris, and London. Fashion weeks are held in these cities, where designers exhibit their new clothing collections to audiences, and which are all headquarters to the greatest fashion companies and are renowned for their major influence on global fashion.

Modern Westerners have a wide choice available in the selection of their clothes. What a person chooses to wear can reflect that person's personality or likes. When people who have cultural status start to wear new or different clothes a fashion trend may start. People who like or respect them may start to wear clothes of a similar style.

Fashions may vary considerably within a society according to age, social class, generation, occupation, and geography as well as over time. If, for example, an older person dresses according to the fashion of young people, he or she may look ridiculous in the eyes of both young and older people. The terms fashionista or fashion victim refer to someone who slavishly follows the current fashions.

One can regard the system of sporting various fashions as a fashion language incorporating various fashion statements using a grammar of fashion. (Compare some of the work of Roland Barthes.)

Los Angeles Fashion Week 10/13/2008

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Gap Fashion Reviews

They will be priced at $28 for a 3.4 oz spray.
Building on its long history of supporting the arts, today Gap introduced Artist Editions T-Shirts, a limited edition collection of t-shirts designed by 13 of today’s most influential contemporary artists, including Chuck Close, Jeff Koons, Marilyn Minter, Kiki Smith, Cai Guo-Qiang, Barbara Kruger, Ashley Bickerton, Kenny Scharf, Glenn Ligon, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Kerry James Marshall, Hanna Liden and Sarah Sze.
The clothing at the Gap is made from very good quality material, this is not surprising, and it is because of this quality that the Gap clothing store is one of the leading places to purchase blue jeans. They have something for everyone in the family. Mom can go into the store and purchase a trendy and hip dress to wear for an evening out on the town. She can even grab a handbag and a pair of shoes to go with the dress. Dad can go and grab a nice quality T-shirt and a nice pair of dark denim blue jeans. They offer on a brand of clothing made especially for children; this clothing would be found underneath the name Gap Kids. Clothing for women at the Gap range from size zero and go all the way up to a size 24. This is especially good for plus size women tend to have a very hard time locating stores that specialize in their sizes. The good thing about buying your jeans from this store is that the sizes tend to run on the large side. A female that would normally wear a size 10, can walk out of the store with clothing in a size 8.
Gap the USA-based clothing retail store, promoted their Khaki line of clothes with a visual-effect-laden revival of swing music and dance. Gap -- Khakis Swing, a 1998 television commercial, introduced much of the world to what became known as ‘Bullet Time’. The 30 second ad featured khaki trousers-wearing dancers doing the lindy hop, the 1920s Harlem dance that inspired the Swing Era, with its jitterbug or swing moves.

Why a collection of 6 scents all at once, one might ask? "We wanted it to be a whole environment, and that's hard to do with one scent," said Laird. "These scents are light, so you can easily layer several of the products and not be over the top."The limited edition collection is available exclusively at select Gap stores in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and franchise markets, as well as online in the U.S. at It’s also available at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and at Colette, a Paris-based boutique. The t-shirts range in price from $28 to $38.Gap worked in close partnership with the Whitney Museum of American Art and Art Production Fund to create the collection with the 13 artists, who are all previous Whitney Biennial participants. The Whitney Biennial is a special exhibition held every two years at the Whitney Museum of American Art that features the most important contemporary art in the United States. Gap is a proud sponsor of the 2008 Whitney Biennial.

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