Clothing and Fabrics for You and Your Home
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Now & then I come across some interesting fabric and clothing websites that I investigate. I have a small but growing collection of fine oriental fabrics that my wife and I enjoy. In the past I've decorated furniture I've built by tacking down a backing and stretching beautiful fabrics over that and edging it with mouldings. There are few wallpapers that are better looking because of the puffy deep look of the fabric on the furniture. I've also seen the technique on walls in a fancy french restaurant in Marina del Rey, California. Enjoy!
Fragrance Links to Go With Your Wardrobe There are a few unusual purveyors of fine fragrances to wear that are not the usual, highly promoted products common today. You'll find them here.
Clothes Make the Man New York Bums, Before & After
Invisibility Clothing Harry Potter-eat your heart out!
OrientalFabric.com A Hawaiian company specializing in the rich, lustrous oriental brocades like you see on the Oriental emperor type movies. And they will custom make a shirt for you from any of them if you wish. A selection that comes in many fabrics, all lovely.
T'kasha's Treasures An odd but beautiful website for people seeking unusual clothing. And for a change this site features clothing for larger people. Victorian, period, Italian, and custom. Rich, unusual designs & fabrics.
Frontier Western Wear, Inc. Do you love the look of frontier American clothing such as true old western clothes? Do you need everything custom fitted and made for you? The clothes on this website are western but with class. Check it out.
Aloha Vintage From the name you'd think it would all be Hawaiian. Nope. Lots of beautiful imported fabrics in unusual designs influenced by the famous islands. They also do custom clothing for those who need it.
Anjoorian Silks Want silk? Love silk? Hand dyed colorful and intense. I love this site! Expensive though.
Exotic Silks.com Over 1,400 silks and very good prices. And models showing garments, really nice designs, made from them. They also have swatches that you click to have a pop-up window show in 1/3 actual size as well. Some very nice stuff here.
Hawaiian Fabrics.com You have reached the Holy Grail for Hawaiian fabrics on this site! Not only stunningly gorgeous fabrics from Asia but locally produced. And get this: they'll make shirts for you, any size up to XXXLarge, from ANY of their fabrics, for just $39.00! I paid about $75.00 for one shirt last year and it is beautiful-creamy white with pink flamingos! But this year I'm buying from these guys, for sure! Or how about this for an amazing deal: if you LOVE Hawaiian shirts you can join their "Shirt of the Month Club" and get One Classic shirt per month for just $26 bucks! Mama, watch out for your husband, he's gonna be blinding in his sunny shirts if he finds out about this one!
Fashions In Time Custom made to your measurements, clothing from any period of time. Lots of good stuff to check out here.
The Territory Ahead One of my favorite catalogs and an excellent website with comfortable, easy to wear, hip fashions.
Sewfits 3 ladies who will sew anything to your custom measurements. Any size, any costume, any fabric. And any physical problem too. One of these seamstresses is also an engineer who had a lady with one arm larger than the other because of surgery. Definitely worth your attention. And it's humorous as well.
ApparelSearch.com A big list of on-line and in-house apparel businesses, all different types.
FENNTISS Federation Nationale du Negoce du Tissu is the Professional organisation of the original French fabrics Converters for Haute Couture and Fashion industry. If you are looking for French fashion fabrics and other aspects of their high end fashion industry this is where the pros go.
ApparelResources.com An American apparel industry resource information center. Very interesting reading here.
Garb The World.com "Inexpensive, machine washable, medieval reenactment clothes and accessories." Even for children, custom and off the rack. I like the name too.
1st African Clothing "1st African Clothing's mission is to bring you quality, traditional clothing in fashionable African styles.Your purchase of these fashionable items helps support African entrepreneurs striving to better their communities." African clothing is often brilliant and distinctive not only in their materials but their styles. It's often overlooked in the fashion world and is worth considering.
FabricLink.com "The Educational Resource for Fabrics, Apparel, Home Furnishings, and Care."
From Hobbits to Elves: The Costumes and Makeup This is a remarkable article I stumbled across regarding the rare challenge for costuming that the Lord of the Ring movie presented. I've preserved it here just for your interest.
Vintage Blues Vintage denim and clothing here. A fun, sort of funky site with retro design but quality pictures of each item.
North Carolina State University College of Textiles If you know of someone interested in a career in this fascinating field here is a well known school in the industry. The College of Textiles is the largest university-based textiles school in the world.
Romantasy Corsets, some women find them romantic and sexy. This site is the business of one woman who is totally committed to this now faded bit of nostalgia. Interesting comments too.
Vintageous This is another vintage clothing website with a retro feel.
OpenHere A big collection of links to women's fashions.
Pro-Am Safety Product Store Protective clothing of all types.
Adaptive Clothing This is a wonderful page of links on clothing for disabled people or people with special needs such as people who have dwarfing or gigantism situations.
All Seasons Uniforms Uniforms for all situations by over a dozen manufacturers.
911 Fire Police Medical Uniform Website Links to unusual wear for emergency personnel.
BuzzOff Outdoor Wear Insect proof outdoor wear.
Texuba Kimono Shows On the west coast this is the greatest silk show anywhere!