1942 2-piece spring suit

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Costumer's Marketplace

Welcome to the Costume College Costumer’s Marketplace for Costume College 2012. We are always working make your shopping experience wonderful, and are pleased to promise an exciting variety of both familiar and new specialty dealers.

The Costumer’s Marketplace is always open to the general public as well as to Costume College members. (Please see hours at left.) If you have friends who will not be not attending Costume College, invite them to the Marketplace. It can be a great "first taste" that gives people a sense of what the College has to offer. Our goal for Costumer's Marketplace is to bring together a perfect mix of costume supplies and information that will fulfill all of your costume needs, desires and dreams.

Registration for the 2012 vendor's room is now open!
Download the Costume College 2012 Vendor Application

Please feel free to contact our Co-Chairs for the Marketplace email Cat Slater Woodward or phone (323) 733-3964 and Mela Hoyt-Heydon or phone (714) 223-1455. If you send an email, please sent it to BOTH Co-Chairs, so they both know what's going on.

Enjoy Costume College! --Cat and Mela

 

Marketplace Dealers from 2011

Alter Years
Janet Wilson Anderson
(626) 569-9919
Fax (626) 569-9909
www.alteryears.com

Patterns, books, corset supplies, jewelry, hoops, parasols, gloves, fans, feathers, trims and accessories.

Alter Years
photo courtesy T. Dow Albon
Atelier Mela
Mela Hoyt-Heydon
(714) 223-1455
email: missmela@aol.com

Reproduction millinery and accessories from the 1700s through the 1930s
Atelier Mela
photo courtesy T. Dow Albon
Butterfly Frillies
www.butterflyfrillies.com

Victorian, Civil War, Steampunk, Glamour, and contemporary corsets.

 
Buttons!/Unbuttons
www.unbuttons.com
email: linda@unbuttons.com

Antique and vintage buttons and buckles, distinctive contemporary buttons. Jewelry from buttons.

unbuttons image
photo courtesy Unbuttons.com

 

Chris Hattaway



 

Dawn Sklar
Ribbon & Trim

Dawn Sklar
(310) 306-9126

email: ribbonbutton@verizon.net

French jacquard trims, Czech buttons, embellishments.



Decades of Style Pattern Company
Janet Manning
(510) 847-6234
www.decadesofstyle.com

email: info@decadesofstyle.com

Offering vintage patterns from 1900 to 1960 -- faithfully reproduced with modernized printed pattern pieces and illustrated instructions. Each amazing Decades of Style pattern is available in 12 sizes, from 30-inch bust up to 55-inch bust!

Decades of Style
photo courtesy T. Dow Albon

 

Dragon's Treasure
Robert Spickard & Lisa Shuck
(559) 266-9295

www.dragont.com
email: drgntreasure@jps.net

Our jewelry represents many places and times: Viking to Victorian, Oriental, romantic and more. Original design and historical reproduction jewelry in solid sterling silver or bronze, made by the lost wax process with exquisite detail and meticulous finishing by Robert Spickard. We also make cloak clasps, bodice lacers and buttons.

Dragon's Treasure
image courtesy The Dragon's Treasure

 

Hedgehog Handworks
Joady Gorelick
(310) 670-6040
fax (310) 216-2872

www.hedgehoghandworks.com
email: joady@hedgehoghandworks.com

Silk, wool and linen threads, pewter fasteners, real metal threads, sterling silver needlework tools and accessories, scissors, books.

 

Hedgehog Handworks logo
logo courtesy hedgehoghandworks.com
Holzer & Combe Haberdashery
www.holzer-combehaberdashery.com

Gentlemen's clothing from casual to formal.

Holzer & Combe
logo courtesy Holzer & Combe Haberdashery

Hornsmythe
Calvin Cotton
(714) 896-8173
www.hornsmythe.tripod.com
email: hornsmythe@netzero.net

Items made from horn, bone, leather & fur, as well as amber and silver jewelry, buttons, etc.

 

Hornsmythe

photo courtesy Hornsmythe


Jewels by Olivia
Olivia Competente
(415) 412-9956
fax (866) 775-3057
www.jewelsbyolivia.com

email: Darkwulf78@earthlink.net

Jewelry, accessories and tiaras designed and handcrafted by Olivia, incorporating fused glass, hand worked silver, vintage Austrian crystals and Czech Republic crystals. All pieces are one-of-a-kind originals. Handsewn ribbon flowers and bonnets are made by the other half of Jewels by Olivia: Dina Competente.

 

Jewels by Olivia
photo courtesy jewelsbyolivia.com

Margaret Mannat Fine Books & Collectibles
Margaret Mannatt
(916) 534-7334
email: mmannatt@yahoo.com

New and out-of-print books on costume, fashion, history and construction. Vintage textiles, accessories, hats, fans and assorted jewelry.



Truly Victorian
Heather McNaughton
(916) 780-3112
www.trulyvictorian.com

They offer historial Victorian sewing patterns, and miniature dress forms.

 

Truly Victorian
image courtesy Truly Victorian

Unique Creations
Gwyn Britzman
(818) 341-8935
www.uniquecreations.us

unique_creations@earthlink.net

Unique handcrafted Medieval, Renaissance, Victorian, Steampunk, Gothic, Pirate and Vintage inspired Jewelry & Accessories. 

Unique Creations

image courtesy Unique Creations

 

Vintage Moments
Leah Neis
(909) 744-8128
fax: (909) 744-8129
email: vintagemoments@charter.net

19th century fabrics, vintage embellishments, including beaded velvets, satins, tassels, trims and appliqués.

 


 

Z’Etiquette
Cat Slater Woodward
(323) 733-3964
www.zetiquette.net

email: thefolks@zetiquette.net

Custom carpet bags and purses -- six sizes from travel size to purse size. In addition, they have parasols, wooden handle craft bags, purses, hatpins, brooches and hair clips, both painted and in carved wood, plus fans and miscellaneous small accessories.

Z'Etiquette
photo courtesy T. Dow Albon