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Blue Velvet Vintage
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Vintage Resources
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Vintage Resources
Below is a list of sites we recommend that offer interesting and useful vintage and retro related information. If you know of a really cool site that you think would be appropriate here, please send us an email to let us know!
Organizations
A great organization of which Blue Velvet Vintage is a member. Promotes vintage fashion and provides a forum to bring together buyers, sellers and anyone else who has a passion for fashions from the past. They host the largest vintage label resource on the internet and “Ask Ms Vintage” where you can get answers to any questions you may have about the care and collecting of vintage clothing.
An online consortium of reputable vintage clothing dealers, offering tons of helpful information about vintage fashion. Features a large resource library and a guide to everything you always wanted to know about collectible vintage Vanity Fair lingerie.
FASHION HISTORY AND STYLE RESOURCES
For women who have something to get off their chest. Fiercely feminine, cutting edge lifestyle magazine covering pop culture, celebrities, fashion, beauty.
A content rich, illustrated 630 page site on fashion history, costuming, trends, and vintage clothing . Offers hours of fascinating reading for the fashion enthusiast.
Massive fashion history site with a very cool color name database that dates back to 600a.d.! They have a separate research library of over 3000 pages that you can subscribe to for a nominal fee. Totally worth the price for the amount of fashion information you’d have access to.
Iconique Fashion, Art and Lifestyle Magazine
Iconique ezine is your online fashion, lifestyle, beauty, trends and art magazine featuring virtual catwalk shows, news, editorials, beauty, trend blogs and more.
NOSTALGIA AND RETRO LIFESTYLE
Time Warp Wives Step into a bygone era of old school culture, retro fashion, housekeeping tips and more!
50s Web Extensive site covering everything about the 50s and 60s.
Do you prefer dressing like Katherine Hepburn? Love big band music, martinis and supper clubs? The Fedora Lounge is dedicated to people who are into the classic style of the Golden Era. You’ll find a great bunch of friendly individuals chatting about classic cars, clothing, music, and of course, fedoras! Their Powder Room is a ladies only forum where vintage loving fashionistas dish about swing era clothing and beauty tips. These girls will give you the lowdown on how to attain a perfect period look right down to the appropriate way to wear seamed stockings and garters! They also can point you in the right direction to find everything you need to complete your classic style transformation.
A great index database of 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s nostalgia, vintage and retro related sites.
This is a really fun site celebrating classic and modern Polynesian pop culture. Tiki and vintage Hawaiiana buffs congregate to discuss everything to do with tikis, exotica music, famous tiki bars and restaurants, and tiki events. Grab a mai tai and join in!
If you fancy yourself a modern day bombshell, then check out this site. Their showcase of classic movie vixens will definitely inspire you to new heights of vampishness.
World Wide Retro
Your Kustom Kulture portal to the web. Hot rods and rock and roll.
Vintage Dancer is reviving old social dancing, fashion and music with articles, videos, event listings, discussion forum, and shopping links to clothing and costumes, books, music and more.
VINTAGE PINUP MODELS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS
Jitterbugdoll Miss Amanda Lee is a pinup model who expertly captures the glamour of the 40's and 50's. She also specializes in period hairstyles and makeup techniques.
Janette Valentine is a super talented vintage pinup photographer from south Florida. For more information on her services, click on her banner below or visit her Myspace Page
DanceNet Covering the Boston/New England swing dance scene. Also, a comprehensive list of places to dance nationwide, music suggestions, articles about swing dancing and dance etiquette.
Jitterbuzz Tons of great information about swing dancing, lindy hop, vintage clothing and other retro lifestyle topics.
RETRO CLIP ART AND GRAPHICS
What's Buzzin- Retro style graphic design and stock images. You can also find their great selection of retro greeting cards and invitations with cool vintage graphics at this site.
Retro clip art for you! Instantly download scalable, vector and web-ready retro and vintage clipart and T-shirt art! A classic collection of advertisements, signs, and logos from the thirties, forties and fifties including WWII pinup girls, mascots, pop culture designs and bowling art from the atomic age.
VINTAGE FASHION AND BEAUTY TIPS
Vintage Hairstyles How to get that perfect pincurl, fingerwave and learn all about 1940s rats and rolls!
Art Deco Society Fashion and beauty tips for period correct 20’s and 30’s Gatsby looks
Fifties Web Makeup tips for the mad, mod 60s look.
The Hair Archives Website devoted to vintage hair fashions
VINTAGE, RETRO, ANTIQUE and INDIE SHOPPING
Antique GuidePremier antique shop guide dedicated to helping you find dealers that specialize in specific antique fields.
Men and women's vintage and designer clothing and accessories.
Barkcloth Hawaii Hawaiian fabric, tropical vintage 50’s motifs for retro home décor, sewing and crafting. Upholstery, drapery and apparel fabrics for your fifties fashions.
Bartiki Custom bars, carved tikis, barstools and mugs and more. Some of the coolest tiki bars on the net.
Collectics The Collectics Collecting & Crafts Collector Directory features only the best web sites about antiques, collectibles, crafts, antique resources, clubs, events, and museums. Later, discover Collectics' eclectic variety of antiques and collectibles for sale, collecting information, collector books and book reviews, monthly quiz to win free gift certificates, decorative arts museum 1890-1935, and more.
Couture Allure
Classic vintage clothing for today’s fashionable woman. This website has a fabulous collection of beautiful, high quality vintage fashions.
Our Dancing Daughters Beautiful vintage reproduction clothing custom made to order.
Denver Fabrics Folkwear Patterns
Sewing patterns for period and ethnic apparel. Fabric including silk, wool, velvet and faux fur. Also sewing notions, trims and books.
Flapper Girl Fabrics Online fabric store carrying a stunning selection of vintage reproduction fabric for craft sewing and home decorating. Featuring vintage style textiles in large scale floral prints and tickings.
Heavenly Vintage Lingerie
Offers fine vintage lingerie for the discerning collector. Specializing in bras, panties, girdles, slips, nightgowns and more from the 1920’s to the 1980’s.
Hooked on Vintage
Offering fun and affordable vintage clothing and accessories from the 1930’s to the 1970’s.
Indie collective
Indie shopping guide for independently-owned businesses. Showcases artists,artisans, designers & many other facets of the creative arts community.
Indie Shopping The ultimate indie guide to what's hot and new outside the mainstream
Lets Get Vintage Costume Jewelry
Signed and unsigned quality vintage costume jewelry from designers such as Boucher, Caviness, Coro, Hagler, Jomaz, Sherman, Swarovski, Trifari and Vendome. Find rhinestone pieces, brooches, butterflies, Christmas tree pins, parures, necklaces, earrings and more
Vintage Collectible Jewelry ~ Artisan Beaded Jewelry Designs
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Morning Glorious Vintage Clothing
From couture to Street style. An online boutique specializing in dresses from 70's to the 20's.
Retro Kitty Kat
Vintage for the modern bombshell. Find sexy vintage and retro dresses, lingerie, accessories, tops, bottoms, outerwear, swimwear as well as informative articles, galleries and interviews in the lifestyle section.
Retrodress
A stunning selection of fine quality vintage designer clothing.
Sharon' s Antique and Vintage Fabric Specializing in vintage fabric from the 19th century to the 1950s. Your source for feedsacks, quilts, collectible linens and textiles.
Sweet Romance Timeless Jewelry
Beautiful site with gorgeous vintage inspired jewelry.
TACE.com Antique and collectibles marketplace
The Vintage Peddler
A huge selection of men’s and women’s vintage fashions and retro home décor items. Specializing in mid-century, atomic era vintage clothes, furniture, patterns, lighting and smoking accessories. We cater to the vintage fashionista by providing quality wearable vintage clothing from the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s.
Vintage Bags
Antique, vintage, collectiible and designer handbags and purses. Beaded and satin evening bags. Alligator, snakeskin and hand tooled leather handbags. Vintage Coach bags.
Vintage Costume Jewelry
Hard to find quality vintage, antique and estate jewelry.
Vintage Fashion Guild Member Sites
Here’s a page where you’ll find links to a great group of professional vintage clothing dealers who are members of the Vintage Fashion Guild
RETRO PLANET
Original and reproduction fifties retro nostalgia, collectibles, memorabilia, diner, gameroom and home theatre décor, furniture, furnishings, housewares, gifts and kitsch.
Vintage Virtuosa Fine vintage clothing, jewelry & accessories for her plus hand selected vintage housewares, glassware and linens for her home. A complete vintage lifestyle. Come reminisce with us
Vintage Vixen
One of the oldest vintage clothing sites on the net. Huge selection of fab vintage fashions, plus a wealth of information about fashion history and the care and cleaning of vintage clothing.
Excellent Guide
Web directory where you can find articles on fashion, antiques and collectibles and lists of shopping sites.
