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an event of Costumer's Guild West, Inc.
Costumer's Marketplace
Vendor applications for Costume College Costumer's Marketplace 2010 are available now, here!
Welcome to the Costume College Costumer’s Marketplace. 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.
If you would like to apply to be a vendor for Costume College 2010, please feel free to contact our Co-Chairs for the Marketplace, Cat Slater Woodward at blukitty@earthlink.net or (323) 733-3964 and Mela Hoyt-Heydon at missmela@aol.com or (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
[Please Note: we have had search capability in the past, and will have it again, but not just now. Thank you for your patience.]
Marketplace Dealers 2009 |
ADORNMYNTS
Lea Moore
(530) 295-1124
www.adornmynts.com
Civil War, Victorian and Renaissance replica jewelry, including chatelaine's, circlets, crowns and bodice ornaments |

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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. |

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 |

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B. COOLE DESIGNS
Barbara Coole
(707) 575-8924
www.bcoole.com
email: bc@bcoole.com
Embroidery for historic, fantasy and contemporary costumes. Patterns and sewing supplies too. |

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COSTUME BY AZIZA!
Aziza Parker
(530) 622-7566
azizaparker.tripod.com/
email: azizaparker@yahoo.com
Crazy quilted clothes, fabric and miscellaneous goodies!
(If you get an error, try Google, or the search within Tripod, using "Aziza!")
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DAWN SKLAR
RIBBON & TRIM
Dawn Sklar
(310) 306-9126
email: ribbonbutton@verizon.net
French jacquard trims, Czech buttons, embellishments.
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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!
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THE 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.
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THE ELEGANT HARLOT
(760) 622-0100
www.theelegantharlot.com
email: ladymari@theelegantharlot.com
Handmade Victorian-inspired beaded hats, gloves, chokers, handbags and parasols. Unique Victorian-themed ready-to-wear clothing items with matching accessories.
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FARTHINGALES
(310) 392-1787; fax (310) 392-1762
www.farthingalesla.com
email: lsparks@farthingalesla.com
Bones, busks and hoop steel. Stock up on your steel needs for the year. We have spiral steel and spring steel by the yard; and three types of busks spoon busk, wide busks and the basic straight busk. We also have a bone tipping tool!
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HEDGEHOG HANDWORKS
Joady Gorelick
(310) 670-6040; fax (310) 216-2872
www.hedgehoghandworks.com
email: joady@hedgehoghandworks.com
Silk, wool and linen threads, corset supplies, pewter fasteners, real metal threads, sterling silver needlework tools and accessories, scissors, bones, busks, hoop wire, books.
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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.
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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.
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MAKING YOUR DREAM COME TRUE
Trycy Lynn Gomez
(760) 641-0936; fax (760) 724-0830
www.makingyourdreamcometrue.com
email: makingyourdreamcometrue@cox.net
Wigs, hairpieces, gloves, costume supplies, tiaras, feathers, hat stands and other fabulous costume items.
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MARGARET MANNATT 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.
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SACRAMENTO CITY
DRY GOODS
JoaAnn Peterson
(916) 446-4422; fax (916) 455-4528
www.saccitydrygoods.com
email: joann@lafnmoon.com
This fabulous store caters to the 19th century reenactor. They have period shoes, men's and ladies' furnishings, toys, paper goods, jewelry and corset patterns.
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TOUCHING HISTORY/
COSTUME ALLEY
Thomas Weaver
& Linda Bredemann
(805) 300-9103
Military uniforms from the 1940s through the 1960, and men's accessories and gear. Vintage clothing from the 1940s to the 1950s.
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TRULY VICTORIAN
Heather McNaughton
(916) 780-3112
www.trulyvictorian.com
email through the web site
They offer historial Victorian sewing patterns, and miniature dress forms.
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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.
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THE WARDROBE WING
Betsey Potter
(818) 764-2127
www.wardrobewing.com
email: betsey@wardrobewing.com
Fabulous vintage clothing, costumes, trims, fabric and reproduction shoes.
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Z’ETIQUETTE
Cat Slater Woodward
& Laurie McGee
(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. |

photo courtesy T. Dow Albon
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