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Shoes or no Shoes? Museum
New shoe museum in Belgium, based on the collection of tribal and ethnic shoes, accumulated by Mr. Habraken. Another part of the collection contains hundreds of pairs of shoes, worn by famous artists all over the world. Museum is housed in a special building, which is in itself a very interesting architectural attraction. The museum is equipped with the best display and communication facilities. This museum is sponsored and maintained by the joint efforts and generous contribution of the Belgian companies Cortina and Fla Europe.
Karen Augusta Antique Lace and Fashion
Karen Augusta is one of the best dealers in antique vintage clothing. For over thirty years, she has devoted her professional time to studying and collecting antique clothing, lace, linens and textiles. Karen consults with museums, historical societies, estate planners, auctioneers and individual collectors as well as fashion designers, magazine editors and film/theatre costumers.
She exhibits at many quality antiques and specialty shows throughout the northeast. Her web site, www.antique-fashion.com, attracts well over 45,000 international visitors each month. Students, teachers, re-enactors and historians use this website as a costume study resource, as well as its companion Museum Archive site (http://www.antique-lace.com) Karen Augusta is a member of The Costume Society of America, a national organization dedicated to the study, history and preservation of costume. She is also a appraiser of antique clothing and lace for the hit PBS series ANTIQUES ROADSHOW..
In 2009 Karen opened a new auction house AugustaACTIONS.
We were honored to acquire several valuable exhibitis to our collection from Karen and we hope to cooperate in future.
C20 Vintage Fashion
Over a forty-year career in vintage clothing we have assembled a unique collection of some of the best examples of twentieth century fashion design. Formerly trading as Jo Dalby Costume Hire and Butterfield 8, we have supplied vintage costume to many award-winning film and television productions.
Our archive collection comprises thousands of garments, many of museum quality, and including couture and designer pieces, making it an invaluable resource for fashion designers and stylists seeking inspiration from original vintage reference. The collection includes: Alaia Biba Body Map Bus Stop Cardin Courreges Ossie Clark Dior Mr Fish Mr Freedom John Galliano Gaultier Bill Gibb Granny Takes A Trip Katherine Hamnett Kenzo Thierry Mugler Jean Muir Anthony Price Pucci Mary Quant Zandra Rhodes Vivienne Westwood Kensai Yamamoto
We also have an extensive collection of beautiful 1920’s and 30’s day and evening wear; superb examples of tailoring and cutting, featuring hand-worked details and embellishments.
Our design section contains modern twentieth century textiles, ceramics and glass pieces for sale.
Vintage Martini
Women's clothing from the last 200 years. Fabulous hats to fit that perfect outfit. Victorian high button boots to 50's stiletto's, Edwardian crochet bags to lucite purses. Mens clothing and accessories from the Victorian gentleman to the swingin' rock-a-billy.
We have a wonderful selection of vintage fashion magazines, catalogs, sewing manuals, knitting and crochet books and just some fun and unusual fashion paper items. A large assortment of Victorian through 1960's embroidery transfers. Tons of 1900's thru 1960's knitting and crochet books, manuals and catalogs.
Excellent vintage site, constantly restocked.
RoSa Shoes
Roger and Sarah Adams first began their commercial involvement with pointed stilettos in the summer of 1983, and spent several years retailing shoes ranging from original, unworn old stock stiletto-heeled women's fashion shoes from the early 1960s, to the post-punk "alternative" styles produced by the few small London factories still able to make women's shoes with pointy toes.