Let's Share Our Favorites (Helpful Links)

Let\'s Share Our Favorites (Helpful Links)

So what do you have in your favorites folder?
Lets share some links that we think are the most helpful.
Whether it is auction tools like snipe progams or templates or free gifs or pinups or vintage related like fabric or lace id sites....well you get the idea.

I'll start:

Auction Tools:
Auction Counts Ebay Stats


Ebay Phone Numbers

Free Auction Tools Great site! Free sniping program, Power adder adds something to all of your auctions at one time, feedback tools, and tons more!

Keyword suggestion tool

Another Free Sniper

Negative FB Finder

I'll post my favorite Fashion and Fabric links later.

Who's next?

Marie

 

Great thread, Marie! ...and, garshk, 'cause you've caught me with my almost-non-functioning-IE pants down, but there are a couple of favorites I know by heart, anyway...

http://www.all-about-fabrics.com/ (for their fabric dictionary) and
http://www.tips2toes.com/ (for their shoe sizing instructions and conversions)

Steph

 

Marie, like that negative finder! I hate trying to weed
through pages looking for negs if I'm interested in
something of a seller's, and they have several negs!

A great search engine, which is relatively new, however
is growing, is <a href="http://www.vivisimo.com">Vivisimo</a>

This will cluster search results, which really cuts down on
time spent searching.

Sue

 

Those are great. I also have the All ABout Fabrics link but I link directly to the dictionary.

Here are some more:Distinguishing Leather Alligator/crocodile?

Another good fabric dictionary

And another fabric dictionary

Fabric Burn Tests

The next 3 are for identifying lace:
Lace id

Bobbin Lace ID

More Lace

Clothing Thu The Centuries


Marie

 

Does anyone have a link to a good site with templates for tables? I had one bookmarked, but between computer crashes and so on, it's been misplaced.

Lizzie

 

Like this Lizzie?

http://www.e-pixs.com/table_examples.html

Marie

 

Perfect, Marie. Thanks.
Lizzie

 

I have been finding a lot of company info on this site Its a USPTO its for thier trademarks. Tells when the company applied what the trademark looks like. What they manufactured.

http://www.uspto.gov/main/trademarks.htm

 

Free Translation

http://www.freetranslation.com

offers several languages. Many of the translations can be rough as it is not a human translating it, but one might be able to get the gist.

 

I did a table tutorial but haven't released it yet. But you guys can use it if you want, it's still a bit of a work in progress:

http://www.vc-mall.com/practice.php

Deb

 

and another shoe conversion chart from me! (this girl loves her shoes...)

http://www.i18nguy.com/l10n/shoes.html

hope it works!

harriet

 

Here are a few of mine.

For Costume Jewelry dating and maker's marks:

http://www.morninggloryantiques.com/JewelChat.htm

More Costume Stuff:

http://imageevent.com/bluboi/

Couture Collection:

http://www.camrax.com/pages/birks0.htm

Size Conversion from The Tall Club of NYC:

http://www.tall.org/clubs/ny/tcnyc/Resources/clothing/Conversion/body_conversion.html

HTML Help:

http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/reference/

http://blooberry.com/indexdot/html/index.html

http://blooberry.com/indexdot/css/index.html


All Fashion Mag Covers:

http://www.iconography.net/

Good for Research:

http://www.fashion-era.com/index.htm

 

Here are a few of mine!

Not in any particular order just kind of mumbo jumbo !o



Classic Print Ads:
http://www.adflip.com

How to Measure Head for your Hat!
http://www.shushans.com/sixthpage.html

Learning About Flowers and Id'ing Them!!

http://www.800florals.com/care/glossary.asp

http://www.backyardnature.net/flowers.htm

OT: Roman Numeral Converter!

(You never know when you might need one of these!)


http://www.crowes-nest.com/CrowesNest/Library/RomanConv/roman.html

Picture Framing Site:

You can use these as a border on your auction pics!

http://colordiver.com/framer.cgi

Here's a Vintage Postcard Site!
http://www.billblanton.com/archive.htm

I use this on my shoe auctions, a bit of an education on how to measure your feet!
http://www.tips2toes.com/sizes.htm


I have a ton more but they are in my research file which appears to have been ghosted with the new hard drive....I will be happy to post more!

Nanc

 

I think Melanie (?) was the one who gave this to me

Model ID discussion
http://members2.boardhost.com/bwgreyboard/index.html?1097291270

If you have an ad or fashion photo and want to know who the model is. Mostly modern, but there are some people who know vintage models as well.

 

Bumping this thread because we have a couple of members who recently lost all their links.
So please share your favorites.

Marie

 

don't know if this is any help but useful for finding out about more modern designers and fashion houses

http://www.dressforsuccess.nl/Fashion-Designers.html

and a bit random but ultimately quite useful - used this for deadstock which still had tags to work out exactly how many weeks wages (US) that the dress would have cost in 1953 etc... maybe it's just me that finds that interesting!

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/AWI.html

useful vintage sewing and laundering references from original sources

http://vintagesewing.info/1930s/31-ldc/ldc-toc.html

 

THe Historical Boy's Clothing Website

http://histclo.hispeed.com/intro.html

I just came acrossed this. Not a lot of pictures, but a great starting point.

 

I just had to question myself, go check, and edit my reptile platforms info., as they're alligator--not crocodile. Someone else here posted this link, a long time ago. This site is great for looking at the differences between gator, croc., and caiman...

http://www.alligatorfur.com/retail/leather.html

 

To find out what is on the fashion horizon for men.

http://www.men.style.com