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Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"A guide to finding, buying, and caring for vintage clothing"--
Sick of cheap, wasteful, disposable fast fashion? Learn how to shop for vintage clothing and accessories and build a more sustainable, stylish closet. Buying older clothing means getting beautiful pieces that are built to last, without contributing to sweatshops or landfills—but only if you know what to look for. Let a vintage clothing expert guide you to ethical fashion bliss!
Author
Publisher
Barrons Educational Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Barnfield combines retro fashion inspiration with modern style and patterns. She gives you plenty of practical advice, and explains all the techniques you'll need for sewing and adapting patterns to your personal taste.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"With all the stress of opening her new vintage clothing store (housed in the renovated old town morgue), Madeira Cutler feels like a bag of bones--until she discovers the real deal, unearthed by a snooping intruder, in one of the old body drawers. And the bones are as vintage as Maddie's stock (Classic Mod--so 60's!), or so says Maddie's sexy resident ghost, Dante Underhill. Could the break-in have something to do with the local playhouse and its...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
While helping to plan her sister's baby shower, vintage clothing boutique owner Madeira Cutler must also solve a murder when Imogen, her new design intern, dies under suspicious circumstances and an imposter arrives at her doorstep later in the evening claiming to be Imogen.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Karen Nevitt has brought new life to old, abandoned things. Her vintage clothing collection, nestled away in Washington, D.C.'s picturesque Georgetown, features exquisite designer originals from decades past. But there is something deadly sewn into the lace and delicate fabrics she has, clues to a forgotten mystery that is pulling Karen into a dark and terrifying place. A secret once locked away in old trunks and dusty attics is crying out for justice,...
10) Vintage: a novel
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Debut author Susan Gloss's VINTAGE is set in a Madison, WI vintage clothing shop, where every garment has a story, just like the women who meet there--a pregnant teenager, an Indian housewife, and a divorcee looking for love--who over the course of a few months come to transform the store and each other" --
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Cookie Chanel has a passion for fashion--and a murder mystery to solve! Cookie Chanel has opened her own vintage clothing boutique, It's Vintage, Y'All, in the charming town of Sugar Creek, Georgia. Always on the lookout for stylish second-hand steals, she attends the estate sale of deceased socialite Charlotte Meadows. But she gets a lot more than she bargained for when Charlotte's ghost appears before her--offering fashion advice and begging Cookie...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
While providing authentic period outfits for a film being shot on a historic plantation, vintage clothing store owner Cookie Chanel finds herself starring in a real-life murder mystery in which she must rely on the supernatural support of her psychic cat to find a killer among a cast of suspects.
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
As the owner of a popular vintage clothing store, Lily Ivory can enjoy a day of antique jewelry shopping and still call it work. But since she is one of San Francisco's resident witches, searching for hidden treasures can sometimes lead to dangerous discoveries. When Lily arrives at a gem fair--full of antique jewlery, rare stones, and decorative tchotchkes--her bargain sensors go off left and right. But she also picks up a faint vibration of magic....
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
While planning a 1950s-themed brunch to benefit the local women's shelter, witch and vintage-store owner Lily Ivory, after her fiancé stands accused of murder, begins to suspect that one of her magical enemies is targeting her loved ones in an attempt to weaken her
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
From burlesque show to fashion runway, magazine cover to Internet video, style icon and "burlesque superheroine" (Vanity Fair) Dita Von Teese has undergone more strokes of red lipstick, bursts of hair spray, boxes of blue-black hair dye, and pats of powder in a month than a drag queen could dream of in a lifetime. Whether she's dazzling audiences while swirling in a towering martini glass in Swarovski-crystal-covered pasties and stilettos or sparking...
17) Recipe ruckus
Author
Series
Nancy Drew clue books volume 17
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When Nancy, Bess and George go searching for the perfect gift for the Drews' housekeeper, Hannah, they choose a vintage apron, which may have belonged to a famous local cook, and discover a recipe in the pocket--but when it disappears they have to follow the clues to find out who stole it, and why.
Author
Series
Black Dog Bay volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After growing up in privilege and marrying into money, Lila Alders has gotten used to the good life. But when her happily-ever-after implodes, Lila must return to Black Dog Bay, the tiny seaside town where she grew up. She's desperate for a safe haven, but everything has changed over the past ten years. Her family's fortune is gone-and her mother is in total denial. It's up to Lila to take care of everything...but she can barely take care of herself....
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian/New American Library
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Witch Lily Ivory hides her powers as she runs a vintage clothing store in San Francisco, but when a client is murdered and children start disappearing, Lily uses her unique skills to investigate, at the risk of blowing her cover.
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