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COSTUMER'S MARKETPLACE 2008

 

Costume College 2008 from Friday August 1st through Sunday August 3rd

Waiting List for Memberships.

Time Traveler's Gala tickets on sale now
Fantasy Tea tickets on sale now


There is a Costume College Membership Waiting List. Please use separate checks for Memberships from any checks for the Gala and/or Tea. Checks for Memberships will be cashed, money will be held and refunded if space is not available. Memberships will be issued in order by the receipt date of checks, until capacity has been reached. Use the CONTACTS PAGE to request further instructions from the CGW President. Gala and Tea tickets are separate items and still available. Costume College Membership is NOT required to attend either the Gala or the Tea. Our Marketplace is open to the public.

 
The Costume College vendor application period for 2008 has passed.  If you would like to be put on a waiting list, should we have any cancellation, please feel free to contact me directly at blukitty@earthlink.net or (323) 733-3964.
Marketplace Dealer's Application


Welcome to the Costume College 2008 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 will be open to the general public as well as Costume College members. If you have friends 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 2008 is to bring together a perfect mix of costume supplies and information that will fulfill all of your costume needs, desires and dreams.

Below is a list of dealers who have sold at the Costumer's Marketplace in the past. Many will return in 2008 , but each year we have new vendors offering wonderful items for sale. If you are interested in joining our Marketplace as a vendor, please click on Cat Slater to send a message to our Marketplace Chair.

 
Leave the search box below blank, and the page will list all vendors. If you type a search term into the box below, and then click on the SUBMIT button then only vendors containing that term will be included in the list of presented.
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ACME NOTIONS, Booth 7   ACME NOTIONS
Lori Sacks
1087 El Paso Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90042
Phone (323) 254-9012
  Website: acmenotions.com
Email: lorisacks@earthlink.net
  Contemporary and vintage sewing supplies, vintage sewing patterns, and More!  
 

 

 

ALTERYEARS, Booth 16   ALTERYEARS
Janet Wilson Anderson
P. O. Box 98, Rosemead, CA 91770
Phone (626) 569-9919; Fax (626) 569-9909
  Website: www.alteryears.com.
  Patterns, books, corset supplies, jewelry, hoops, parasols, gloves, fans, feathers, trims and accessories.  
 

 

 

ATELIER MELA, Booth 3   ATELIER MELA
Mela Hoyt-Heydon
3887 Whistle Train Road, Brea, CA 92823-1058
Phone (714) 223-1455
  Email: missmela@aol.com
  Reproduction millinery and accessories from the 1700s through the 1930s  
 

 

 

DAWN SKLAR RIBBON & TRIM, Booth 2   DAWN SKLAR RIBBON & TRIM
Dawn Sklar
P.O. Box 10610, Marina Del Rey, CA. 90295
Phone (310) 306-9126;
  Email: ribbonbutton@verizon.net
  French jacquard trims, Czech buttons, embellishments.  
 

 

 

DECADES OF STYLE PATTERN COMPANY, Booth L3   DECADES OF STYLE PATTERN COMPANY
Janet Manning & Julianne Bramson
1474 University Avenue, #165, Berkeley, CA 94702
Phone (510) 847-6234
  Website: 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!  
 

 

 

ETERNAL GARDEN, Booth 6   ETERNAL GARDEN
Andree & Chuck Youngson
3365 MT.Veeder Road, Napa, CA 94558
Phone (707) 255-3880
  Email: ayoungson@earthlink.net
  Miniature varieties of flowers and wildflowers are grown and pressed, then set into jewelry findings to create pressed floral brooches, necklaces, earrings and a variety of other items. Included are brass stampings for costume and jewelry design.  
 

 

 

FARTHINGALES, Booth 13   FARTHINGALES
Linda Sparks
240 Wellington Street, Stratford, Ontario, Canada N5A 2L6
Phone (519) 275-2374; Fax (519) 275-2376
  Website: www.farthingales.on.ca
Email: lsparks@farthingales.on.ca
  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!  
 

 

 

GILDING THE LILY, Booth 15   GILDING THE LILY
Nancy Jamar
122 North Harbor Boulevard, #110, Fullerton, CA 92832
Phone (714) 992-0537; Fax (714) 680-3085
  Website: www.alainjamar.com/gildingthelily
Email: njamar@alainjamar.com
  Gilding the Lily carries vintage and antique hats and millinery supplies, including veiling, lace, tulle, feathers, flowers, ribbons, buttons and trims. Our extensive selection includes vintage clothing and accessories, jewelry and more, spanning Victorian, Edwardian, the Roaring Twenties, and the War Years through the 1960s.  
 

 

 

GOLD RUSH ORIGINAL JEWELRY, Booth 8   GOLD RUSH ORIGINAL JEWELRY
Doug & Terri May
P. O. Box 125, Clovis, CA 93613
Phone (559) 298-8148, Fax (559) 298-8195
  Email: terridoug-may@sbcglobal.net
  Antique and vintage estate jewelry, accessories and collectibles, handmade and custom jewelry with precious and semiprecious stones.  
 

 

 

HEDGEHOG HANDWORKS, Booth 14   HEDGEHOG HANDWORKS
Joady Gorelick
8406 Flight Ave., Westchester, CA 90045
Phone (310) 670-6040; Fax (310) 216-2872
  Website: 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.  
 

 

 

JEWELS BY OLIVIA, Booth L1   JEWELS BY OLIVIA
Olivia Competente
163 Seville Street, San Francisco, CA 94112
Phone (415) 412-9956; Fax: (866)775-3057
  Website: 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.  
 

 

 

MARGARET MANNATT FINE BOOKS, Booth 12   MARGARET MANNATT FINE BOOKS
Margaret Mannatt
P. O. Box 16243, San Diego, CA 92176
Phone (619) 283-3062; Fax (619) 283-2127
  Email: mmannatt@yahoo.com
  Antiquarian and out-of-print books on the costume and fashion arts; history, illustrated and children’s titles, pirates, and all sorts of diversions and delights in theatrical design.  
 

 

 

T. L. BARNES ENTERPRISES, Booth 10   T. L. BARNES ENTERPRISES
Tammy Lynn Barnes
15129 Domino Street, Van Nuys, CA 91411-1904
Phone (818) 782-2716
  Website: www.tlbarnes.com
Email: trimlady@tlbarnes.com
  Trims, buttons, threads, appliqués, jewelry, garb.  
 

 

 

THE DRAGON’S TREASURE, Booth 11   THE DRAGON’S TREASURE
Robert Spickard & Lisa Shuck
816 East Olive Avenue, Fresno, CA 93728
Phone (559) 266-9295
  Website: 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.  
 

 

 

THE HORNSMYTHE, Booth 1   THE HORNSMYTHE
Calvin Cotton & Theresa MacWillie
Box 4321, Huntington Beach, CA 92605
Phone (714) 896-8174
  Website: www.hornsmythe.tripod.com
Email: hornsmythe@netzero.net
  Items made from horn, bone, antler, leather and fur, as well as amber and silver jewelry, buttons, etc.  
 

 

 

THE WARDROBE WING, INC, Booth 4   THE WARDROBE WING, INC
Betsey Potter
7306 Coldwater Canyon Avenue, Ste. 16, North Hollywood, CA 91605
Phone (818) 764-2127; Fax (818) 301-2764
  Website: www.wardrobewing.com
Email: betsey@wardrobewing.com
  Vintage lace trims, and ribbons, accessories and shoes. We also carry costume books, reproduction period shoes and some vintage fabrics.  
 

 

 

TRULY VICTORIAN, Booth 5   TRULY VICTORIAN
Heather McNaughton
18925 John F. Kennedy Drive, Riverside, CA 92508
Phone (951) 780-3112
  Website: www.trulyvictorian.com
Email: trulyvictorian@earthlink.net
  Truly Victorian is dedicated to providing quality authentic ladies’ sewing patterns of the Victorian era, specializing in the bustle. These patterns are suitable for re-enactments, balls, weddings and other special occasions.  
 

 

 

Z’ETIQUETTE, Booth 9   Z’ETIQUETTE
Cat Slater Woodward & Laurie McGee
2524 Fourth Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90018
(323) 733-3964
  Website: www.zetiquette.net
Email: thefolks@zetiquette.net
  Custom carpet bags and purses, we have five sizes from travel size to purse size and new garment bags. Parasols, wooden handle craft bags, purses, hatpins, Russian brooches and hair clips, both painted and in carved wood, plus fans and miscellaneous small accessories. We do custom carpet bag orders.  
 
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