Hi Everyone!
Have been reading the posts and meaning to introduce myself and I finally have some spare time, so here goes!
I'm originally from the Boston area, but have been living in Florida last several years. I was a chef on private and chartered yachts for the last ten years. That's when I began to seriously collect vintage clothing and fabrics. I would go out searching for stuff in every port we docked at! I always hoped to turn the collecting into a viable business someday and that's what I'm working on now.
I've always loved fancy dresses since I was a little girl. I remember my aunt had two of the most gorgeous 50's prom gowns and I would beg her to let me have them to play dress up. She actually used them as bribery to get me to behave when she babysat for me! If I was good I got to play with the dresses. She actually ended up giving them to some other family member and they cut them up and remade them into totally different dresses. I almost wept when I found out! I alway thought she would give them to me!! Have had a thing for prom gowns and other clothing from that era ever since.
Here I am, many, many years later with all these outfits and fabrics threatening to overtake my home! I have a website that's only been active since mid-february and I sell on Ebay when I have time. It's taking forever to list everything on the site and do paperwork, marketing, search engine submissions, linking etc, plus find more inventory. But I guess you're all familiar with this. I have the utmost respect for the sellers I see on Ebay who can list 30-50 vintage clothing auctions a week. It's amazing.
Since I'm still learning, I don't know how much useful information I can offer, but I'll try! I know it's really important for me to have a place to go when I get stumped about something or just have a place to go where there are other people who love vintage clothing as much as I do!
So, thanks in advance to all of you for being here and offering help to newbies like me!!!!
Theresa
bluevelvetvintage