2005 NEW TO THE BOARD? INTRODUCE YOURSELF HERE

hello to lorie, julia, and everyone else that has posted and i have shamefully failed to keep up with!!
this is possibly the most useful resource i've found as a vintage seller - and mine are usually questions of the date variety too... so also nice to have more people to help me struggle on, lol! someone here always seems to have that bit of information you can't quite remember.

Would like to say hello and introduce myself... have collected vintage for years, and am a guide at a NYC fashion museum which gives me wonderful opportunities to see amazing things (and wish I had millions of dollars to buy with). Go to auction house sales, flea markets, thrift shops, antique shows, etc., looking for lovely odds and ends from lace and period handfans to 1930s-50s-60s clothing. Worked as a design journalist and arts administrator here and in the UK where I was born. Love to wear vintage with modern, high end and flea market fun...most recent buy: a Schiaparelli astrakhan swing coat, c. 1950, from a flea market. Can't wait for winter! Setting up website and hope to post relevant info soon. Looking forward to learning new stuff, getting advice, insight and guidance from VFG members.

Welcome to all the new members! I was away from here for a couple of weeks and then had the flu - am so thrilled to see all the new people
posting!

Sue

Hi!

I'm Lauren. Got sent here as from a reference from FuzzyLizzie from the Fedora Lounge. I'm so glad to have found this board! I have been studying/collecting for 10+ years and the longer I do it, the more I am convinced I don't know nearly as much as I would like to . I'm very happy to be here, and am excited about what I'll learn!

Hi Lauren, great to see you here!

And you are absolutely right...the more you know the more you want to know more/realize that there is just so much more out there!

You might want to check out some workshops Lizzie presented in the workshop forum...lots of great info there

Chris

Hi Lauren,
Great having you here!

Lizzie

Hiya ~~I\'m new to this board~~

Hiya-I'm dealer that just found this site~what a wealth of information and resources. I was particularly excited when I found the section full of photos of manufacturer's labels. I don't consider myself to have a specialty, but lately I've been selling quite a few 70's disco & boho dresses, but I get excited about any era. I spend about 3 hours every day (some days way more)in vintage related activities, be it eBay, showing in my home, other internet activities, and most of all- on the hunt at rummage sales, digging through bins of discarded clothing, thrift shop outlets, flea markets-you name it. The vintage clothing business is my passion, my art, and my inspiration. Yeah.

Welcome, Miss Veronica!

We look forward to having fun with you here while you work towards that magic number!

Thanks for joining!

:bouncy:

Jody

Hi Veronica!!

Welcome to you!

:party:

Chris

to all the new members i missed!

Howdy.

I'm the newly minted Production Manager at Upscale Resale, a non-profit thrift store in Rockville, Maryland. Got directed here by a helpful vintage retailer I contacted trying to track down some information on some vintage clothing we just got in.

Anyway, I'm gonna kick back and cruise the board for a while. Looks like a great place!

Hi!

Welcome to the forum!

Feel free to dive in! There is a lot of questions asked, answers given, and vintage gabbed about here!

Is Charapa your first name or your "handle"

Chris

Name's Brian. Charapa's just a handle I use online.

Hi Brian,

nice to meet ya

Thanks. Glad to be here. :bouncing:

Welcome, Brian!

There are superb resources here & a few superb folks, too! ;)

Good Luck on your quest.
leisa

Hello Chris! Welcome.
Your new position sounds like a dream job!!!! I'd love to have a job like that.

Sandra

oops, I meant Brian aka Charapa. I already know Chris!!! LOL.

Hi Sandra!

Nice to meet you again

hee hee

:spin:

LOL

Heya, leisa and Sandra (and, yep, I do love my job :D ).