Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Dressing Table ~ Sweet Romance Jewelry Vintage Necklaces Antique Bracelets Victorian Hat Pins

Sweet Romance Jewelry
Vintage Necklaces
Antique Bracelets
Victorian Hat Pins
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""How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, --- I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death."

Purfume Flask Victorian Styled
Purfume Flask Victorian Styled

Dolphin Under Sea Inspired Necklace
Dolphin Under Sea Inspired Necklace

Dolphin and Pearl  Mermaid Sea  Bracelet
Dolphin and Pearl Mermaid Sea Bracelet

Nouveau Summer Bracelet
Nouveau Summer Bracelet
Deep Ocean Necklace with Smokey Hued Pearls and Earrings
Deep Ocean Necklace with Smokey Hued Pearls and Earrings

Mermaid Bracelet
Mermaid Bracelet


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IT’S usually easy to distinguish between clothes and costumes: either

Drawing the line between polish and pretension is trickier, especially when last year’s costume can be this year’s classic, and next year’s yawn. Just consider the steady infiltration of 19th-century haberdashery into the 21st-century wardrobe. Garment after garment has arrived on the scene that one might think more Gilbert and Sullivan than Bergdorf and Goodman, only to be taken up by the young beards.

Not long ago, big brass-buttoned military coats looked a bit extreme. So did high-button, high-lapel vests and slim tweed trousers. And so did guys who tucked said trousers into high, old-fashioned hunting boots. Now these clothes (along with those ever-present beards and mustaches) look like downtown defaults compared with fall runway looks like cardinal-red tailcoats at Ralph Lauren, capes and bowlers at Alexander McQueen and knee breeches at Robert Geller.

As with home design, where curio cases, taxidermy and other stylish clutter of the Victorian era have been taken up by young hipsters, many of today’s popular men’s styles have their roots in the late 19th century. There are the three-piece suits once favored by mustachioed Gilded Age bankers; the military greatcoats and boots of Union officers; and the henley undershirts, suspenders, plaid flannel shirts and stout drill trousers worn by plain, honest farmers.

Just ask Taavo Somer, whose restaurant Freemans, with its mounted animal heads and antique oil landscapes, has been one of the trend’s most active petri dishes (and who lives the fantasy sufficiently to enjoy shooting skeet on weekends upstate). Even his eyebrows went up recently when he saw a young man dressed in a bowler, cape, breeches and knee socks on the Lower East Side.

“We’ve already seen the comeback of the butcher and the baker,” he said. “Next thing is going to be a hipster candlestick maker.”

The antiquarian aesthetic is far-reaching, with tendrils in the worlds of art (as in the work of the fashionable painter Walton Ford, opening Thursday night at the Paul Kasmin Gallery in Chelsea) and film (as in “There Will Be Blood,” “The Prestige” and, next month, “Sherlock Holmes”). But it has made its deepest inroads in interior design and men’s fashion. Just as in the late 1990s, when mid-century Modernism seemingly infiltrated every apartment, men’s wear shop and restaurant, this messier, cozier and more idiosyncratic Victorian dandyism is now reaching into all sorts of fashionable spots.

It decks the dark wood-paneled walls of the trendy Jane Hotel and the Bowery Hotel and A-list-y restaurants like the Spotted Pig and the Breslin. Somehow the look seems even more sincere in Brooklyn eateries like Vinegar Hill House and Marlow & Sons and in antique shops like Obscura Antiques & Oddities in the East Village and Luddite in Williamsburg.

Similarly, the look’s most popular components — tweedy vests, woolen trousers, henley undershirts, dark wool ties, scratchy cotton shirts — appear to have an added dose of authenticity when unearthed in tucked-away shops like Amoskeag XX and Against Nature on the Lower East Side, or Hollander & Lexer in Brooklyn. Often they are made in New York by small labels like Engineered Garments and Freemans Sporting Club, Mr. Somer’s line.

The photographer Mitch Epstein, who lives near the Freemans shop on the Lower East Side, said that the store and its aesthetic had so won him over that he recently bought a charcoal-plaid three-piece suit. “These are not the kind of clothes I was wearing,” he said. “I’m more high modern. But there’s a comfort and quality in them, a respect for what you wear and how you appear to others, but in a way that’s not heavy-handed.”

Part of the appeal, in fact, is in how the clothes relate not to the runways or the estates of Europe, but to America’s heartland in ways that few fashions do. Country and city men alike have rediscovered old-school American brands like Filson, Orvis, L. L. Bean and Duluth Pack. Obsolete hobbies like wet-plate photography are finding new enthusiasts; long-outmoded farming practices are being revived. Even deer hunting with old-fashioned muzzleloaded rifles, which have to be loaded with gunpowder, a musket ball and a ramrod, has come back in force in some states.

Who knows, maybe the troublesome comeback of the North American beaver population will lead to a new appreciation of beaver-fur hats. They would be welcome at Paul Stuart, where beaver collars adorn greatcoats worthy of Andrew Carnegie, or at the Harlem workshop of the stylish hatter Rod Keenan, who has been selling bowlers, derbies and, this season, even a handful of top hats.

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Custom Order Deposit  for Linda M.
Custom Order Deposit for Linda M.
$900.00
Satins in Black Cream Pewter 1867 Ball Gown

Civil War 1800's Purple Satin Black  Mantle Reenacting Gown
Civil War 1800's Purple Satin Black Mantle Reenacting Gown

Civil War Walking Gown With Matching Wrap Pale Green and Cream
Civil War Walking Gown With Matching Wrap Pale Green and Cream

Civil War Southern Belle Dress Gown Cranberry  Reenacting Dress
Civil War Southern Belle Dress Gown Cranberry Reenacting Dress

Victorian Bustle Gown 1869 Gold and Ivory Extravagant Walking Ensemble
Victorian Bustle Gown 1869 Gold and Ivory Extravagant Walking Ensemble

Custom Civil War Ball Gown 1866 Godey Peterson  fashion plate
Custom Civil War Ball Gown 1866 Godey Peterson fashion plate

Civil War Era Gown 1866 Elegance in Blue and White
Civil War Era Gown 1866 Elegance in Blue and White

Southern Belle Civil War Gardening Ensemble in Pink and White
Southern Belle Civil War Gardening Ensemble in Pink and White

Southern Belle Civil War Evening Ball Gown Black Lace
Southern Belle Civil War Evening Ball Gown Black Lace

Civil War 1800's Evening Gown Lavender and lace
Civil War 1800's Evening Gown Lavender and lace

Civil War Southern Belle 1863 Gown in Red and White
Civil War Southern Belle 1863 Gown in Red and White

Southern Belle Civil War Dress Gown Dupioni Silk See it in Southern Lady Magazine June July  with  Shabby Lane Shops
Southern Belle Civil War Dress Gown Dupioni Silk See it in Southern Lady Magazine June July with Shabby Lane Shops


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Colonial Dress with Wrap 1750 's Williamsburg Gown "
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Civil War Gowns Southern Belle Dresses Antebellum Dress Costumes

Southern Belle Dresses
Antebellum Dress
Costumes
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Victorian Bustle Dress...Civil War Ball Gowns...Bustle Evening Gowns...Bridal and Wedding Gowns...Antebellum dress....Reenactment Dress..Southern Belle Dress...Gone With The Wind Frocks.

Please contact me for availability on custom orders.

What is it about 1800's gowns so lovely you have to take a second look...The gentle swish of fabrics...layers of trims...laces...pearls. Yards upon yards of shimmery fabrics. Dresses that took weeks to make. Does the idea of a custom made Victorian or Civil War gown appeal to you ... or an already completed gown that is just what you were looking for!! Please take a peek at my offerings ...


Several of the gowns images are from the original 1800's Godey Peterson's Ladies Journal. Beautiful examples of Dickens era and Victorian bustles. I have been fortunate to acquire several copies of this genteel magazine. It is filled with short stories...poetry...recipes...household hints and of course gorgeous patterns for the fashionable women of the day.

Your historic reproduction gown will be custom made to fit you in your choice of colors and fabrics. (Fabrics other than mentioned in description will vary in cost) Typically your gown will be completed in three to four weeks. If prior orders have been placed your gown may take longer.


Completed gowns are ready to be shipped within seventy two hours. (unless miner alterations are needed) Please see descriptions for sizing. New items will be added weekly, so please come back and take a peek!!


I INVITE YOU TO VIEW SAMPLES OF COMPLETED GOWNS IN MY GALLERY. GALLERY LINK IS LOCATED ON LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE PAGE UNDER INFO.

To see additonal photo's of gowns for sale, just click on each image!

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Retro Vintage 1980s Sequined Evening Dress

Retro Vintage 1980s Sequined Evening Dress

Retro Vintage 1980s Sequined Evening Dress. A fabulous English retro vintage full length evening dress in black and white, dating to circa 1987. This wonderful sexy evening dress has a fitted and boned bodice, completely covered with black, white and cream sequins. The dress is ankle length and it has a full polyester skirt, which swishes nicely when you move. The skirt of the dress is gathered into the fitted waist and it has an underskirt and net petticoat all sewn in, to give it some shape. The dress has sequined straps, but, these look like they have been added and they could be easily removed if you wanted to wear this strapless. The dress fastens with a rear concealed zipper and it has a cloth label, which reads: Bernshaw. A really great dress, very light and easy to wear, all you need with this dress is big hair, and you'll truely look like a diva! The dress is in great shape, with no flaws or damage, excellent condition.
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Fab Antique Bisque Doll Dress W Wonderful Embroidery


BEAUTIFUL ANTIQUE BISQUE DOLL Pink FABULOUSLY EMBROIDERD DRESS needing TLC!!!!

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LOTS to LIST TODAY…!!! I HAVE TONS of INVENTORY that I am going to do BUY IT NOWS ON……

The items are mostly from the TURN OF THE CENTURY …..but please read descriptions…!!!

The LOW prices in no way indicate quality…I am just OVERSTOCKED..and I am offering these to you with discounts so that you can get great QUALITY VINTAGE / ANTIQUE items at a reasonable price…

This auction is for:
A FANTASTIC, FANTASTIC GUARANTEED ANTIQUE BISQUE DOLL DRESS!!!

THIS DRESS IS BEAUTIFUL IN PERSON with the DELICATE CREAM EMBROIDERED WORK on BODICE, SLEEVE EDGE and HEM area on a PINK BACKGROUND!! It has overall fading and ageing..but as you can see it STILL LOOKS STUNNING!!

The embroidered work is very DELCIATE…..It is ALL OVER THE BODICE AREA ON THE FRONT and BACK of the dress…

The HEM area has the same embroidered work all around…

The sleeve edges are DEICATELY SCALLOPED and above that is the same embroidered work…

The dress is delicately gathered…and falls from the bodice …

There are 2 large frayed holes on either side of the dress…but because there is so much GATHERING of the FABRIC, you could stitch the fabric by overlaying the gathering and the holes wouldn’t show when displayed..
There are a few other minor splits in the fabric and the fabric is gently aged but nice…There are also a few stains…but in my opinion they are minor and add to the fantastic appearence of this dress…It is SUPER, SUPER GORGEOUS!!!!

The dress is approx 16″ long with sleeves being approx 4 1/2″ long.

It is approx 12 1/2″ around at the underarm level..It has 2 buttons in the back but no button holes…I believe it originally closed with a pin or stitching…..

Although this dress has damage…in my opinion it is a SUPERIOR QUALITY DRESS!!! and will make a FANTASTIC DISPLAY on your favorite bisque doll!!

THIS IS GUARANTEED ANTIQUE!!! It is NOT NEW made from old fabric…It came from an extensive collection that I aquired last year…!!

I have no reserve!

By placing a bid on our items, you are agreeing to all our terms noted.All Sales are Final and items are sold as is. Please use PHOTOS as part of the description.
I work hard for my feedback, and want to make your buying experience with me pleasurable.

I pack EVERYTHING SAFELY as I pack ANTIQUES for a living!!

Also, I am a GREEN ENVIRONMENTLY CONSCIOUS person, using boxes from a clothing store that are NEW, used just to ship items to that store..and are not dirty!!
I do not believe in cutting down more trees to make paper for new boxes.

I also use CLEAN packing material around your item and CLEAN NEWSPAPER that is just part of the packing and does not come in contact with your item which has been carefully wrapped first…

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Our new big, bright, and bold cuff bracelets are sure to attract attention! Acrylic open-ended cuff features a cluster of bezel set stones on the front. Light blue acrylic stone is surrounded by a circle of rhinestones, which have faux red coral and faux turquoise stones around them. Stones are bezel set in notched gold tone metal for an extra bit of shine. Bracelet is available in two hues - red and black.




Our new big, bright, and bold cuff bracelets are sure to attract attention! Acrylic open-ended cuff features a cluster of bezel set stones on the front. Light blue acrylic stone is surrounded by a circle of rhinestones, which have faux red coral and faux turquoise stones around them. Stones are bezel set in notched gold tone metal for an extra bit of shine. Bracelet is available in two hues - red and black.

Jellica's Flower Cluster Cuff Bracelet
Look no further - this fun and flirty flower cluster cuff bracelet is a designer inspired delight! Gold tone cuff features a medley of enamel flowers, leaves, ladybugs, and butterflies. Each flower has either a single rhinestone or a cluster of rhinestones at the center. Rainbow color palette and whimsical design make this bracelet unique and appealing. Open ended cuff bracelet is double hinged for easy on, easy off. Don't forget to shop the matching adjustable flower cluster ring as well!
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14k Choice of White or Yellow Gold Black Diamond Stud Earrings and Pendant Set (1 cttw) Reviews


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This simple and elegant stud earring and pendant set features a total of three small round black diamonds (1 cttw), prong set in your choice of 14 karat white or yellow gold. The earrings are set on posts with friction back closures, while the dainty and petite pendant is fitted with a split bale and showcased on a very slender and delicate rope chain. Black diamonds, also known as carbonado diamonds, are found only in Brazil and the Central African Republic. Recently, geologists have found compelling evidence that these mysterious gems actually formed in outer space and traveled to Earth billions of years ago inside of meteorites. Their intriguing origins make black diamonds a unique and sublime choice.
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AAA Doulton Tile


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Langley Rhodes Pottery Portrait Tile


Langley Rhodes Pottery Portrait Tile

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A very nice Portrait tile done by Langley Rhodes Pottery. The front of the tile is signed Langley. Unfortunately I have been able to find out nothing about this maker or artist. What I know is that it is very nicely done, the quality is there. The condition is very good.
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Welcome to Steptoes Dog Online Boutique

Welcome to Steptoes Dog Vintage Retro & Antique Clothing & Collectables Online Boutique. Here you can chose from 1000's of authentic vintage, retro, collectable, antique, kitsch, unique and unusual items, all covered by our NO QUIBBLE GUARANTEE! If you're looking for divine vintage & retro handbags, evening bags, jewellery, accessories and clothing, then you've come to the right place, these are our speciality. We also do a great line in antique, vintage retro and collectable gifts for him and her, books, tablewares, porcelain, pottery, linens, textiles, glassware, silver, toys, postcards, homewares, kitchenalia and much more ..... so have a good root around, you're bound to find something you like!

What's New Pussycat ? .......
- Here are the Christmas postal dates for Christmas delivery from Steptoes Dog, based on the Royal Mail Christmas delivery dates: International 4th December, UK standard 1st class service (which we use for our freepost service) 21st December. We are offering next day delivery until the 23rd December, to arrive on Christmas Eve if you're really cutting it fine! Please note all orders mkust be placed by 2.30pm to make the post for that day. There are no Royal Mail deliveries in the UK between 25th - 28th December. Hope this helps with planning your Christmas shopping!

- Check out the December issue of Country Living Magazine, they've got a lovely fashion shoot and it features some of our pretty vintage jewellery and antique evening bags!

- Steptoes Dog Vintage Wares got a mention in the You section of the Sunday Mail on the 8th November. A lovely interiors piece on a lady who has used vintage scarves to make curtains, for her home, which is a really niffty idea! So if you fancy adding a splash of colour & style, why not use vintage scarves or other vintage textiles (we have loads) to make curtains, cushion or whatever other soft furnishings take your fancy!

- Steptoes Dog is now Carbon Neutral! We work hard to produce very low carbon emissions and we have now off-set the remaining ones for the business activities and for the products, so not only are the vintage products recycled, but, they're now also Carbon Neutral! Our off-setting is done via the Pure, Clean Planet Trust Charity and is used to fund environmentally and socially benificial projects in the UK and around the world - such as installing solar panels in schools and hospitals and building wind farms - hurrah!

- Check out our BRAND NEW GIFT SHOP www.ninetyninegifts.co.uk it's full of cute and quirky vintage inspired gifts and homewares, perfect for a treat and with 10% of the proceeds going to humanitarian charities, it is socially responsible and it's also carbon neutral - so brownie points all round!

- Check out the Alan Titchmarsh Show - he's doing a section on 'Food Your Grandma Used To Make' and it features some of our products - my mum's a big Alan fan,so she's really over-excited!

- Some of our pretty vintage accessories are featured in the September issue of Country Living Magazine.

- We featured in the Saturday Times - 26th September, we helped them out with some info about a lovely antique bag that they'd been asked to value for their 'What's It Worth' column. I was really pleased - the bag was lovely & the journalist Virginia Blackburn was very nice too!

- Some of our lovely vintage homewares are props in the new Miss Marple on ITV ... I was very excited, I love Agatha Christie!

- You can now get your jewellery and small accessories gift wrapped by us, less hassel for your gift giving!

- Some of our pretty jewellery features in the September issue of Country Living magazine...

- We're now offering you FREE UK postage on all your Steptoes Dog Vintage Wares purchases. This is using the Royal Mail 1st class postal service.
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