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VERY IMPORTANT – LEGAL STUFF
ATTENTION ALL ATTENDEES:
YOUR PHOTOGRAPH MAY BE TAKEN AT
COSTUME COLLEGE® 2010.

As is customary at many of our events, photographs of participants and their guests are taken and posted on the Web.  We believe that the use of these photographs enhances the overall event experience by the participants.  This practice will occur at COSTUME COLLEGE® 2010.  Under the circumstances there is a real possibility that your photograph may be taken by us or attendees and thereafter posted on the web.  By attending COSTUME COLLEGE®, you give your consent to the posting of such photographs by us or others and waive all rights and claims with respect to the posting of such photographs. 

(F.Y.I. - While we have no control over other peoples’ websites, the CGW, Inc. does not list names with the photos on our website.  If you would like your photo removed, please contact the Web Mistress.  Please reference “Costume College” in the subject line to avoid being considered “spam”.)
 
Thank You, 
Costumer’s Guild West, Inc. / Costume College® 2010

 

 

Costumer's Marketplace

Welcome to the Costume College Costumer’s Marketplace for Costume College 2010. 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 2010 vendor's room is closed. Thank you to all of the vendors who have signed up for Costume College 2010. 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 2010

ADORNMYNTS
Lea Moore
(530) 295-1124
www.adornmynts.com

Civil War, Victorian and Renaissance replica jewelry, including chatelaine's, circlets, crowns and bodice ornaments


Adornmynts
image courtesy Adornmynts

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

BUTTONS!

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

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.

 

bcoole.com

logo courtesy B.Coole Designs

 

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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logo courtesy Costume by Aziza!

 

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!

Decades of Style
photo courtesy T. Dow Albon

 

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.

Dragon's Treasure
image courtesy The Dragon's Treasure

 

ETERNAL GARDEN

email: ayoungson@yahoo.com

Pressed floral jewelry, bookmarks, spoons, thimbles; brass stampings for costume and jewelry-making; sculptured glass charms

 


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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!

Farthingales LA
photo courtesy farthingalesla.com

 

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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logo courtesy hedgehoghandworks.com

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 courtesty jewelsbyolivia.com

LAUGHING MOON MERCANTILE

www.lafmoon.com
email: joann@lafmoon.com

Period sewing patterns and sewing notions.

Laughing Moon logo
logo courtesy Laughing Moon

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.


Making Your Dream Come True

photo courtesy makingyourdreamcometrue.com

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.

 

Sacramento City Dry Goods
image courtesy Sacramento City Dry Goods

 

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.

 

Truly Victorian
image courtesy Truly Victorian

 

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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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.

Z'Etiquette
photo courtesy T. Dow Albon