Greetings Shoppers!

 

It's Dame Lori, writing in to report that October is the Spookiest Month for us at City Opera Thrift Shop...there is so much scary great fun going on.

 

Last week we celebrated with The Costume Event--what an astonishing evening! Over 200 Vintage Costumes donated from the warehouse were on sale...ball gowns, beggars gowns, faustian frocks, flamenco frills, gas masks and cod pieces, too.  When the doors opened, the crowds flew in from alll over the world and fled

through to scoop up these amazing pieces. Hauling out 4 huge bags of costumes were the owners and special effects wizard of Blood Manor, NYC's Most Haunted House, ecstatic over the scary ripped beggars rags they scored to style their monsters and freaks.  On a higher, more sophisticated plane, our friends and devotees, Sophie Eustache and Pamela Meurice, were all aglow in their fine costuming stylings preparing for next year's Carnivale in Venice- their 12th season in a row!

 

 

Oh readers, how I LOVE VINTAGE....and it's coming to City Opera Thrift Shop next Wednesday evening from

5-9:00 pm. Vintage is how I have been able to dress and style myself and it's definitely how I developed my Soul Style.  Finding one piece of vintage can spiritually, emotionally and physically change your personality in a heartbeat.  We have hundreds of pieces that can instantly transform a depressed unemployed customer into a courtesan strolling down The Avenue des Champs-Elysees for less than $50! 

 

I enter the orchestra pit of the basement to explore the VINTAGE scene and bump into Jay Thompson, the leader and genius behind everything genius at the store. Jay knows the power of each piece and sums up this event brilliantly, "VINTAGE is a very fun hodge podge event and big treasure hunt! "

 

Aha, I see the hodging and podging happening in front of my eyes...silk mandarin dresses and robes, batiks from Bali, ponchos from Mexico, sexy mumus and hostess gowns. And as I touch each piece, I imagine all the designers inspired by them....Vivienne Tam, Anna Sui,Todd Oldham, Moschino, Isaac Mizrahi and so on and so on.  And now the little treasures....the gorgeous designers who are resting their souls....Bill Blass, YSL, Chanel and Pauline Trigere all waiting for you, mixed in with other precious designs for you to touch and be visually and sensually inspired. And the furs, always the furs..how 'bout a stole for a steal at $75? Don't forget the endless accessories, big and chunky is the look or dainty and demure....however you want it--VINTAGE will personalize your look with the add on of ONE PIECE and it's CHEAP!

 

For the bigger treasures, I go upstairs to a little sideroom where I find the handsome Jeremy Forbis, assistant manager sporting a new facial style....a beard! Which makes him very profound when he says..."Imagine ABC Carpet & Home with Thrift Shop Prices." I pull a few images out of him... vintage teak, 70's chrome and glass, lucite, 50's daybed. Thank you, Jeremy...what's next- a handlebar mustache?

 

And as I exit, I fix my eyes on a brand new feature at the Shop- Lana Weiss, a 22 year old fashion designer, vintage lover and recent college graduate who just moved to NYC from Illinois to land a job at Vogue's favorite highest quality thrift shop. Wearing a classic vintage red top and blue skirt, this talented young woman gushed that she is "really really really excited about next Wednesday!"

 

Fashion History Continues.

Classic designs never go out of style.

Everything old is new again.

Join the Vintage Revolution on October 28.

5:00-9:00 pm

City Opera Thrift Shop

222 E. 23 St., , between 2nd & 3rd Avenue