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A few 1940s and early 50s items available at Better Dresses Vintage Peplum Dress: Dressmaker Plus-Size Jacket: Halter Dress & Jacket Set: Jeweled Suede Belt: Wood Frame Carpet Bag Purse:

Liza here. The Europeans were definitely ahead of us Americans in offering on-garment care and fiber content. Yesterday I bought a 60s winter coat with mink collar. In the pocket was the original hang tag with fiber content, plus a handkerchief (man's, so likely her husband's -- can't you just...

Some new listings at the main site this week ... 50s Crinoline: Colorful 80s dress: 60s Chiffon Shell: Micromosaic Frame and Box: 70s Hostess Dress:

Lucy, I love that gray suit!!

Hi, La'nae. I wrote all about my lifelong love of vintage here: http://betterdressesvintage.com/blogs/from-my-closet/3491272-ive-always-been-like-this Nowadays I do as Nicole does, mixing vintage with modern on a daily basis. I wear vintage for most "dressy" events, but with modern accessories...

If only I knew you folks back then!

Such a horror to me to realize I spent an entire day in Bath, and never even knew there was a costume museum. :duh2::duh2::duh2:

A piece of glass alone in a box? What are people thinking? And it survived? Clearly your mailman is more careful than mine. The seller said she'd sent several other fans in the exact same manner and they all survived. I find that remarkable, but then, I'd bet the one she sent me had made it...

You'd think I had all the time in the world, wouldn't you? LOL. This is why I have to do something ELSE while I'm doing it, or my patience will run out and I'll just mess the whole thing up by trying to move too quickly and "get'r done!"

Don't toss that broken fan. Here's how to give it new life: http://betterdressesvintage.com/blogs/from-my-closet/16727980-repairing-a-vintage-hand-fan

Thanks for sharing! Will order.

This site offers free "what is it" answers and they are furniture experts, so worth a try: http://www.chicagoappraisers.com/antique-furniture-styles.html

great find, A!

This time, it's a bag for my parasol... skilled sewists, don't look too closely ; ) please leave any comments, positive or negative (I can handle it) on the blog. thanks for reading!! http://www.betterdressesvintage.com/blogs/from-my-closet/16154280-making-a-parasol-bag

Maggie can I "steal" (with credit, of course) your image? Email me! info at betterdressesvintage dt com

We've been interviewed again, this time by the charming Becky at Cause a Frockus blog: http://www.causeafrockus.com/2014/11/vintage-expert-liza-better-dresses-vintage/

Thanks, Ruth. I'll share this!

FUN!! It's actually volunteer work, Rita. Because I don't do enough of that already, LOL... : ) We represent Stately Oaks Plantation, in Jonesboro, Georgia (yes, that IS where Scarlett O'Hara lived). Though if I ever were to get a paid gig of this sort, I'd certainly take it. I bought the...

Just posted this to my FB Page, and figured I'd share here, as well: I spent about an hour sifting through antique jewelry and doo-dads with this interesting woman last weekend. She, her equally lovely friend in town for a visit, and I met purely by chance, or perhaps not, at the antiques show...

Just this minute shipped off a sequined velvet skirt of his. Coincidence?

That ILGWU label (redwhiteblue) was used from 1974-1995. The peplum style was popular in the 80s.

late 70s/early 80s. pre- giant shoulder pads, but already with the jewel tones

Here are links to two short videos showing our rehearsals prior to performing at this year's "Sunday in the Park" Victorian street festival at Atlanta's Historic Oakland Cemetery. I'm in the striped olive-green and red dress. My wonderful husband (known as "Mr. BDV" to my Facebook Page Likers)...

MJ, I wrote something and then I deleted it. Suffice it to say, it involved the words "dead" and "possum."

Me, too. Just to have one of those! Aren't they heavenly?

Oh, that fabric. I'd just frame it and hang it up.

Oh, those are incredibly wonderful!! Look at this sad, sad thing: Purchased by my parents on their cold-war era trip to the Soviet Union in 1962. Whoever framed it clearly didn't understand "acid free." Isn't it a shame? I love this poster, but it's pretty well ruined. Hung in our laundry...

You go, Pauline!

She's ironing the Emperor's new clothes, of course.