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Fancy Flappers Unique 1920's Flapper Dress Costumes

2009-04-27T04:05:00.001-07:00

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2009-04-27T04:02:00.000-07:00

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Time of Celebration at the Commerce Towers

2008-05-26T04:50:00.000-07:00

From a historical building to a modern luxury building in the present, it is a “Time of Celebration”-at the Commerce Towers. Houston’s past and future monument is celebrated its Open House on Feb. 29th, 2008, with a blast from the past; The Roaring 1920’s.

Mikel Marketing brought the Roaring 20’s back to the newly renovated Commerce Towers. A metaphoric twist from past: flapper girls, “Big Band” music, and lots of dancing with a fantastic view of Houston’s skyline. Fancy Flappers Unique Costumes provided all the costumes worn by the models that worked the event. They looked fabulous!

Jesse Jones built the Commerce Towers in the 1920’s, which was once called the Commerce Building. Now, the 25-story architectural achievement has been transformed into beautiful, high-end condominiums. Fancy Flappers not only provided the costumes, but attended this swanky event with friends (Sheryl, Jami, & Stephani), who were also dressed to the nines in Fancy Flapper costumes.

Here's a view from one of the balconies on the 23rd floor of the Commerce Towers.

Guests arrived dressed as Flappers and Gansters.

They made a stop at the best bar in town. The “Speakeasy” bar was set up to serve Classic 1920’s Martinis, the popular Mint Julep, the sassy Pink Murder, and the Backseat Boogie. The servers were also passing around cognac for guests to sip and champagne. Top resteraunts served delicious and well-known hors d’oeuvres from classic dishes that started in the 20’s, such as the lamb "lollipops: with classic BBQ sauce, bread pudding with sauce, crab cakes, “Speakeasy” spinach dip, Prime Rib with 3 different sauces, and a few select Greek dishes.

The highlight of the evening, nationwide independent recording artist, “Maria Williams Band” performed their “Big Band” sounds with classics from Sonatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Tommy Dorsey, etc. The music set off the flapper girls to dance the night away. Guests who know the Fox trot, the Charleston, or the Black Bottom had a chance to show off their moves in the dance contest.

This was a spectacular event. Very posh, with the best of the best of everything. The food was scrumptious, the alcohol flowed, and the band played on. Mikel Marketing did a great job.

See another great article about this event in the Mikel Marketing newsletter http://mikelmarketing.com/0408.html.

eCRATER has over a Million Reasons to Shop!

2008-03-11T20:38:00.000-07:00

A Million Reasons to Shop at eCRATER.com

Monday, March 10 2008 was a banner day at eCrater, the online marketplace. eCrater has passed the Million Mark in items and is still growing!

Per eCrater founder Dimitar, "eCrater.com was born few minutes before midnight on September 27, 2004 in Irvine, CA. We celebrated the event with a bar of a Swiss chocolate (that was all we had at that hour of the night)." By January 28, 2006, listings had grown to 100,000. Just over two years later, listings topped one million. Enthusiastic eCRATER store owners are celebrating all of that hard work and want to get the word out.

The eCRATER eXPERIENCE is all about the stores. Each store is managed and marketed independently, and is set up with its own unique categories. You can shop across all stores through the eCRATER Marketplace, or find a favorite store and browse around inside.

The depth and breadth of items offered is amazing. It is like going to a huge galleria filled with specialty shops... you can spend the day! No registration needed and includes a convenient shopping cart for your purchases.

Surf through the categories, or search for a special item, such as unique flapper costumes, gifts, collectibles, toys, clothes, jewelry, home and garden, china, shoes, chocolate, linens, toys, handcrafted items, games, books, computers... even cars and homes. From new to vintage to antique, there is something for everyone.

www.ecrater.com takes you to the eCRATER Marketplace. To get started, use Search (left toolbar) or click on Categories at the top. You will see over a million products from stores on eCRATER.

Once you have clicked on any item, right under the BUY NOW button, you can click on the STORE link to see everything in that seller's store.

There are over a million items on eCrater. You will find the perfect one for you.

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Hi, I'm one of the enthusiastic eCRATER store owners. I specialize in Unique 1920's Flapper Costumes with accessories. You're one stop, get it all, unique costume shop. You can see more in my store at http://www.fancyflappers.ecrater.com/.

I look forward to costuming you for your special event! Sade

Support Our Troops for Christmas

2007-10-31T08:40:00.000-07:00

Send Santa to our Soldiers

Photo by Master Sgt. Winston Churchill (Photo by Master Sgt. Winston Churchill)

100% of your donations will go directly to
Task Force Desert Hawk S3
The Operations Section, also known as S-3, is the nerve center of the Task Force. The S-3 is divided between current operations and future operations. Current operations conducts flight operations, involving tracking aircraft locations and status throughout our area of responsibility and maintaining flight records of aviators. Current operations also maintains situational awareness of combat operations in Regional Command East of Afghanistan. Future operations involves planning combat operations and air mission requests from ground maneuver elements.
Christmas is a lonely time for our soldiers abroad.

We miss our soldiers with all of our hearts-but they miss us even more. Let's send some Christmas cheer and make their Holiday Season a little brighter.

We are going to fill a HUGE stocking. Donations can be small wrapped gifts such as new movies(DVD's), music CD's, books, Christmas candy & cookies, coffee, cocoa, toiletries, anything small. Please gift wrap your donations, and feel free to add a card, or note expressing how much we appreciate them.

Prohibited Items
Although there are specific restrictions for each five-digit Military Post Office ZIP Code™ (APO/FPO), generally, the following are prohibited in the region of Operation Iraqi Freedom:*Obscene articles (prints, paintings, cards, films, videotapes, etc). *Any matter depicting nude or seminude persons, pornographic or sexual items, or nonauthorized political materials. *Bulk quantities of religious materials contrary to the Islamic faith. Items for the personal use of the addressee are permissible. *Pork or pork by-products. *Batteries must be packaged seperately from any electronic device.

You may also donate cash, which will be used 100%, to buy little gifts and to cover the cost of shipping this 3ft stocking. We'll even send extra parcels if we have enough.

See last years stocking

My brother-in-law served 2 tours in Iraq, and believe me, the soldiers desperately need some Christmas cheer. It's very hard for them this time of year. They miss their families at home, the festivities, and the home cooked Christmas dinner. Just sending them a little something, reminds our soldiers that they are in our thoughts, and that we are praying for the next year's Christmas to be spent at home.

For details about donations and sending gifts visit Support-R-Troops at www.support-r-troops.com.

Fancy Flappers Unique Costumes ships Priority (2-3 days) or Overnight

2007-10-22T04:59:00.000-07:00

Yes, we can get your costume to you for Halloween. We ship Priority for free on most costumes and can Overnight them as well. You will have your costume in time for Halloween.

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2007-10-16T21:29:00.000-07:00

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2007-10-11T20:01:00.000-07:00

FancyFlappers.com specializes in unique 1920's dress costumes with one of a kind accessories. All sizes, and you'll never see the same costume twice.

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2007-10-10T08:16:00.000-07:00

www.FancyFlappers.com is having a Halloween Costume Sale

One of a kind Historical Era costumes with accessories. Fancy 1920's, Roaring 20's flapper dress, Moulin Rouge, Can Can, Saloon Girl, Showgirl Costumes with headbands, beads, scarves, shawls, or boas. Also unique Renaissance, Halloween, Mardi Gras, New Years Eve. Fancy dresses for Red Hat Society, Pink Hatters, weddings, themed events, theater, plays, parties, Murder Mystery dinner theater, Antique & Vintage Car Shows, and/or collecting.

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Fancy Flappers in the News

2007-09-02T10:36:00.000-07:00

eCrater: Scratching an Ecommerce Itch
By Ina Steiner
AuctionBytes.com
September 02, 2007

In today's AuctionBytes-Update, Lissa McGrath brings us up to date on eCrater (http://www.ecrater.com), a storefront service and marketplace that launched in 2004. We interviewed some satisfied eCrater sellers via email to find out what they like about the service, here are their comments.

Sade of Fancy Flappers Unique Costumes
http://www.fancyflappers.ecrater.com

AB: When did you start listing on eCrater, and how long did it take you to get set up?

FancyFlappers.com: I started selling on eCrater in March of 2006. The store was very easy to set up and took me a few hours to get everything in place, and about 3 days to stock it. The set-up is very user friendly for the most part, and anyone can do it, especially the HTML illiterate because the set-up is all in plain text, everything is very uniform, thus resulting in a very clean and organized look. All stores have the same set-up.

AB: How many items do you currently have listed?

FancyFlappers.com: 131 Costumes & Accessories. :0)

AB: What kind of traffic do you get? Do you pay anything extra to eCrater for extra visibility?

FancyFlappers.com: I do not pay for extra visibility because I use my website FancyFlappers.com, FancyFlappers.com, to draw traffic to my Fancy Flappers eCrater store. I'm very pleased with the traffic.

AB: Do you promote eCrater, if so, how?

FancyFlappers.com: I promote eCrater by driving traffic from my website www.FancyFlappers.com. Every product on FancyFlappers.com, points to my e-Crater store, eCrater is my shopping cart. I also promote eCrater on all of the message boards, and to every auction seller I know. eCrater is the alternative to eBay. My sales are double, sometime triple, than my eBay store sales.

AB: What do you like and dislike about eCrater from the seller's point of view?

FancyFlappers.com: I like the simplicity, love that my buyers can choose Google Checkout to process payment, I like that eCrater sends feeds to Google daily, and I love their Message Board. Any questions a seller, or buyer may have, can be answered there.

I'm wish that eCrater did have basic HTML functionality. I would like to be able to bold text, something to note important details, in my descriptions. Their shipping matrix is a bit complicated and tedious. I really have no other complaints.

Franci Neale of JustonceOnline.com
http://justonceonline.ecrater.com

AB: When did you start listing on eCrater, and how long did it take you to get set up?

Franci: I started listing on eC 8 days ago, but I had the store set up for a while before I actually began....I took a long time to decide exactly what I was going to do. I have put all of my dress making patterns up on eCrater now and am getting one or two sales a day....not bad for the first week....I can't tell where the buyers are coming from, but I am averaging 6 - 10 hits per listing and some are in the 20's and 30's...so they do have traffic.

AB: What do you like and dislike about eCrater from the seller's point of view?

Franci: My experience with eC is slim at this writing, but the listing process is really very easy. They have a bulk loader but I didn't use it. I was able to put up more than l,000 listings in a week.

AB: Is it set up so you could easily list many items if you find you are happy with the site?

Franci: They have a bulk loader, but I'm not sure I would use it as it is based on Excel and I am not proficient in that program.

AB: Do you think you'll be promoting eCrater to your customers, or using whatever traffic happens to come their on its own?

Franci: Right now I am just listing, doing no promotions at all, and sales are happening. I plan on using eC in conjunction with my web store and linking to the categories from there with more details and information. I also will have listings that are just on my web site. We'll see how that works. The site is not yet ready for prime time, but will be within a week....my plan is to be up and ready to promote the heck out of my site by September lst.

AB: Anything else?

Franci: The site itself is slim on instructions and details, but that's not necessarily a bad thing, as it keeps the site really simple and straight forward. It's very fast....and I am on dial up....They have a really good forum that can be reached via the Community tab and it's loaded with information....I got really fast and accurate answers to two questions there.

Also the order notices are really easy and prompt. And they take both PayPal and Google Checkout....which was really easy to sign up for through their site.

All in all it's really good and suits my purposes just right. They recently added inventory control which endeared it to me even more.

Peg of Peg's Buttons
http://PegsBUTTONS.ecrater.com

AB: When did you start listing on eCrater, and how long did it take you to get set up?

Peg: I have been on E since Yahoo closed their auctions..sometime in July I started listing..I am NOT real smart with computer stuff, but it didn't take me long at all to set up my store..it was SOOOO easy.

AB: How many items do you currently have listed?

Peg: I have 481 store items and am listing more weekly.

AB: What kind of traffic do you get? Do you pay anything extra to eCrater for extra visibility?

PEG: I can't believe how many hits I get...many many more than I ever got at Yahoo. No I don't pay anything.

AB: Do you promote eCrater, if so, how?

PEG: Yes I promote but need to do more in that area..I cater to button collectors..I belong to 2 button chat groups and 1 time a week send them to my E. plus I always have my signature that goes out in all my emails and that include my ebay winners.

AB: What do you like and dislike about eCrater from the seller's point of view?

PEG: I like everything about ecrater even the fact you can't use html..I have never had a problem getting to E and it is fast to list and EASY!!

There is one thing I don't like and that is their feedback system..the buyer can only post feedback for a seller if the seller accepts paypal/google..which I don't use either.. I have sold many items and all have been paid by check or money order therefore I don't have any feedback..they should do away with feedback all together.

It won't be long before E is the number 2 selling place..right after that other BIG E..lol!!

Pat of BigTallMensClothing
http://www.BigTallMensClothing.ecrater.com

AB: When did you start listing on eCrater, and how long did it take you to get set up?

Pat: I opend my first store on ecrater.com in March of 2005 - www.BigTallMensClothing.ecrater.com. Set up of text pages is quick and easy, my newest store opened in August of 2007 - www.Promote.ecrater.com took me only about 15 minutes to complete all the set up pages.

Setting up the categories take only a few minutes once you have it all planned out so you can sit there and just enter them and not keep changing the plan. Planning takes the longest.

Adding product is easy too. It's a one page entry form. If I am ready to create the ad (know what I want it to say), it normally takes just a minute or 2, depending on how much I decide to type into the description. Within a few hours a seller can easily have a store up and running on ecrater.com, complete with product loaded.

AB: How many items do you currently have listed?

Pat: http://www.BigTallMensClothing.ecrater.com - 2700 items
http://www.FormalDresses.ecrater.com - 95 items
http://www.FashionsForHer.ecrater.com - 176 items
http://www.BreastCancerJewelryAndMore.ecrater.com - 16 items
http://www.HeelNToes.ecrater.com - 20 items
http://www.GagGiftsRUs.ecrater.com - 20 items
http://www.Promote.ecrater.com - 165 items

Currently working on www.PetsAdored.ecrater.com to be opened by October 1st.

AB: What kind of traffic do you get? Do you pay anything extra to eCrater for extra visibility?

Pat: Of course, www.BigTallMensClothing.ecrater.com gets the most traffic since it has the most items and gets alot more attention. August hits were 2439 on one item but average is probably around 175 or so. Even my newest store - www.Promote.ecrater.com that opened August 1, 2007 has 100+ hits on some items and we haven't begun to promote it much.

I have not tried using ecrater.com paid advertising yet.

AB: Do you promote eCrater, if so, how?

Pat: I am very happy to promote eCrater.com to everyone that sells online as well as those that shop online. I belong to many forums with both buyers and online sellers and always talk up eCrater.com. There is not place else that I know of that you can sell totally free, that does feeds to google.com and gets you excellent placement. Just do a search for Big Tall Mens Clothing on google, you will find my ecrater.com store on page one in the 4th spot. I don't think you can ask for anything better then that!

Our promotional item store, www.Promote.ecrater.com is all about items for small online sellers to purchase for promoting their store. It is also the official ecrater.com logo store. You can buy any item with the eCrater.com logo on it or any logo you want. Our Promote store definitely promotes using the eCrater.com site.

AB: What do you like and dislike about eCrater from the seller's point of view?

Pat: My list of likes is going to have to start with the community forums at ecrater.com, although I moderate the forum so that might sound a bit bias, but it is the most friendliest, most helpful group of people you will find on any forum. (If you haven't been there to check it out, you certainly need to. I think you might be very impressed.)

Next on the top of the list is the google feed / placement on google. Most sellers within ecrater.com are very please to see their products within the first few pages of a google search and within the Google Product list within a few days. Many sellers have reported items found and sold on google within a few hours of listing.

The ease of using eCrater.com as a shopping cart is also high on my list of the things I like about ecrater.com. I have tried other carts and nothing is a easy as ecrater.com plus you don't have to worry about hosting it yourself!

Of course the fact it's totally free is an excellent incentive to use eCrater.com.

No HTML allowed keeps all the ads placed on eCrater.com neat and clean and very professional looking.

Dislikes - In my opinion if eCrater.com was equipped with either a copy ad function or had the ability to use attributes on the product it would greatly improve the site.

The one thing I totally don't like is the shipping matrix. It's complicated and not to easy to use for many sellers especially those that sell light weight and heavy items. I wish it was linked to the USPS shipping calculator. I opt to use flat rate shipping charges but this does discourage buyers from buyer multiple items since the system won't discount shipping if you use that feature. In addition, I lose out on international buyers by using fixed shipping per item because the eCrater.com system doesn't have the ability to handle international shipping UNLESS you use the shipping matrix.

AB: Anything else you want to add?

Pat: Since I have been using eCrater.com I have watched it grow to it's current 724,000+ items over the past 2 1/2 years. May 8, 2007 eCrater.com hit the 500,000 mark. Soon there will be over a million items for buyers to chose from. Over the past 4 months that's 224,000 new items added - 56,000 items a month on average.

Hundreds if not thousands of sellers come to the community forum with questions on how to do things. The sellers are always willing to give advice and help new sellers get started.

I personally like to have my website with my domain name and use ecrater.com as my shopping cart. www.FormalLongDresses.com is set up that was as well as most of my ecrater.com stores. It's not a necessity but it gives me more freedom to show off my store. www.Promote-101.com, www.HeelsNToes.com are also set up using ecrater.com as more of a shopping cart then a store. www.PetsAdored.com will be set up that same way, using ecrater.com as the cart but giving me the freedom to have contest, and other things going on to promote my store better.

Some sellers, as well as myself have suggested to Dimitar, owner of ecrater.com, that maybe it's time to start charging a small fee to sell there or at least for new features like the inventory control that was recently added. He just says he won't do that. He won't charge to sell on ecrater.com since charging was never in his plan. I don't know how he does it, but I know all the sellers as well as myself are grateful to have found ecrater.com.

About the author:
Ina Steiner is Editor of AuctionBytes.com and author of "Turn eBay Data Into Dollars" (McGraw-Hill 2006). She has a background in marketing and research in the high-tech and publishing fields. If you have story ideas, comments or questions, send them to ina@auctionbytes.com.

Make Your Own Halloween Costume

2007-08-16T22:16:00.000-07:00

Free, Creative Halloween Costume Ideas
From Sherri Osborn,
Your Guide to Family Crafts.

Halloween will be here before you know it. Have you figured out what your Halloween costume will be?
If you have your Halloween costume picked out already, share your idea with everyone using this form! If you are still trying to find a Halloween costume, give some of these creative ideas a try; find easy and inexpensive homemade costumes for everyone!

You can make costumes out of a variety of items you may already have at home:
more...

or purchase your costume from FancyFlappers.com. Unique, Complete, and Affordable.

"Jazzamatazz" 6th Official Regional Convention Red Hat Society

2007-05-05T06:21:00.000-07:00

The Red Hat Society promises to paint the town red and purple at this years "Chicago" convention. The theme? Razzle-dazzle "Chicago" of course. Flappers and jazz, Gangsters and hooch, and everything Roaring 20's.

Please be sure to take a look at my red and purple flapper dress costumes. All costumes are complete with accessories and totally UNIQUE! See www.FancyFlappers.com for the most current Red Hat ensembles.

1920's Themed Proms

2007-04-28T22:18:00.000-07:00

Yes, there are 1920's themed proms. A bunch of juniors and seniors dressed in their finest Roaring 20's flapper dresses. Haven't gotten yours? Need it in a hurry? Be sure to check Fancy Flappers Unique Costumes.

Businesses Growing Together

2007-04-01T13:25:00.000-07:00

Welcome to Businesses Growing Together. We are a network of sellers who specialize in online sales and are dedicated to helping each others businesses grow by referring current customers to each other. Our high level of standards to join our network ensure that we only deal with quality sellers and this gives us the confidence to pass those sellers on as referrals to our customers. Businesses Growing Together is all about EXPOSING YOURSELF to online shoppers!

If you are a seller we invite you to join our network. Please read the information regarding participation by clicking here.

Tots To Tweenies

FancyFlappers.com is #1

2006-10-12T21:04:00.000-07:00

Please take a second to vote for my site, I am currently #1, and with your help I'll stay there. Thanks.

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FancyFlappers.com in the News

2006-10-12T10:55:00.000-07:00

FancyFlappers.com in the News

Online Yard Sale Fever Expands Around Houston

Written by Administrator
Houston, Texas: Most people have heard of Ebay, but have you ever heard of an online yard sale? Kingwood residents certainly have and the success of KingwoodYardSales.com is currently spreading to other areas around Houston.

KingwoodYardSales.com is the brainchild of brothers Adam and Austin Allgaier, who developed the site in 2004 to give their wives a venue to get their yard sale fix, even though they live in Kingwood, where garage sales are prohibited.

Since its launch, the site has grown to over 4 million page views per month with over 25,000 unique visitors and has developed a cult following in Kingwood and the surrounding areas. The Allgaier brothers have launched sites in sister sites in the Houston suburbs of Conroe, The Woodlands, Spring, Cleveland, Cyfair, Katy, Baytown, Sugarland, Pasadena, Pearland, and League City.

"We wanted the experience to be similar to going to a real yard sale where buyers could come back each day and see what was new," said Adam Allgaier. Allgaier is a daily browser himself and peruses new listings every morning.

Visitors to the site can browse through the variety of offerings from area residents. Interested buyers can send a message to the seller requesting more information or to schedule a time for pick-up. Those wanting to sell items can sign up for a free account and list up to ten items at a time for sale. Premiere listing are available for only $7.95 per month and allow unlimited listings, bold item titles, expanded descriptions and photos in the listings.

Users of Kingwood Yard Sales come from all walks of life, but they all enjoy turning that unwanted item hanging around the house into extra cash and finding a good deal. Some sellers just post an item here or there. Others turn it into a business.

Sheryl Enright is one of those who has turned KYS selling into a side business. A year and a half ago, Enright heard about KYS through the grapevine. She quickly became one of the sites most prolific sellers as love4bdd and her KYS sales have rivaled her Ebay sales, where she has been a powerseller for five years.

Enright brought neighbor, Sade DeBoer, into the KYS fold as well. Sade uses a variety of online venues to promote her handmade costumes which she sells online at http://www.fancyflappers.com/. Beyond listing her costumes on all of the yard sale sites including those out of state, DeBoer uses her seller profile, Sade, to generate awareness for her own online shop. She has seen a significant increase in traffic to her site since selling on the yard sales family of sites.

KingwoodYardSales.com has become the online sales venue of choice for both Enright and Sade due to the low cost, ease of listing, and no shipping. Rather than per listing and per transaction fees, premiere accounts are only $7.95 per month. The friends turn that into zero cost by taking advantage of the offer of a free premiere account for users who promote the site. "Even without the free account, a six month membership would still only be a fraction of what I pay in weekly Ebay fees," stated Enright.

Other sellers use the site to clear the clutter from their homes. Barbara Erwin, known as BBQBarbie, and Rhonda Schnitz, CAS, both live in Kingwood villages that prohibit garage sales. They turn to KingwoodYardSales.com to get rid of unwanted items.

The discovery of the site came at an opportune time for Erwin, who was unable to work outside of the home due to an injury. Her KYS sales gave her an opportunity to make extra money as well as clear out her garage after moving to a new home. "It's wonderful that the Allgaiers have given us this site and the opportunity to make money," stated Erwin, "It's been a real blessing."

For those interesting in giving an online yard sale a whirl, a recurring refrain among successful KYS sellers is "pictures sell." "Get the premiere account," Enright advises new sellers. Erwin agrees and adds, "Be honest in your descriptions and you'll have happy buyers."

The face-to-face interaction during the transaction has created many friendships among KingwoodYardSales.com users. Enright, Sade, and Schnitz are all part of a Bunco group made up of people met through KYS sales. Erwin and Schnitz have made many new friends through repeat buyers from the site.

Some buyers on KingwoodYardSales.com are looking for a specific item and take advantage of the city-wide search function. Others browse the listings religiously looking for that yet to be found great deal. One such buyer is Veronica Galbreath. Galbreath visits the site daily, "you never know what is going to be out there," she states.

Her tips for finding that perfect item: "Refresh, Refresh, Refresh," referring to the fact that over 2,000 items are posted daily. Items move off the front page so quickly that some may be missed unless the browser cache is refreshed.

"Keep it short and sweet." Galbreath insists that she has missed out on great deals by minutes because she was too lengthy in her inquiry email. Her last piece of advice is to "say that you want it and show up when you say." The secret to the success of KingwoodYardSales.com may be found in a statement by Galbreath, "what one person may not want, another person may need."

The next time you want to clear out that cluttered closet, make a little extra cash, or find a great deal, visit the yard sale site nearest you.

KingwoodYardSales.com is the hub of an online network of classified and for sale sites. Free and premiere memberships are available. For more information, visit www.kingwoodyardsales.com. For a full listing of yard sale sites in the Houston area, visit www.kingwoodyardsales.com/houston.jsp.

Flappers of the Jazz Age

2006-07-30T14:41:00.000-07:00

1920's Flapper

The 1920s flapper costumes embrace the women of the Roaring Twenties. Flappers really came "alive" in 1926. They represented all things/styles modern. A fashionable flapper had short sleek hair, and wore a straight, shapeless shift dress (shorter than usual. These women were generally flat chested, applied makeup in public, smoked cigarettes in a holder, and symbolized rebels who danced the Jazzy nights away! Want to be a flapper? There's more to it than just the costume, you have to walk the walk as well. To walk like a flapper, swing hands forward and back in the opposite direction of the matching foot. Fingers should be held together, pointing sideways away from body, leaving palms even to the floor. Accomplish this and you're on your way!

Flapper Culture and Style

Short hair, short skirt, turned down hose and powdered knees, a flapper was a young women who was often considered fast and unabashed. She offended older generations because of her unacceptable "feminine" behavior. The flapper was "modern." She wore makeup - often applying it in public. Wearing baggy dresses with exposed arms and legs from the knees down, she scandalized her elders. Flappers did more than revolutionize the fashion industry; they personified the spirit of the Jazz Age. Do you know what Jazz is? Jazz originated from African Plantation dances starting as early as 1518. It includes popular moves such as the Charleston, Jitterbug, Swing, and Twist. These days musicals and dance in theaters are popular everywhere, particularly in cities like New York.

Attainable Fashion for 1920's Women

Until the 1920's", fashion was only for the richer women of society. However, the construction of the flapper dress was so uncomplicated that most women were capable of creating the straight shift dresses (trimmed with fringe) using Butterick dress patterns. Flapper fashion style thrived among the middle classes, which closed the fashion gap between the middle and upper classes, yet continued to distinguish them both from the lower class. Although rich ladies continued to wear brilliantly embellished silk evening clothes, most basked in their newfound sophistication of fashionable flapper clothes. What were the favorite colors for a flapper dress? Black tops the list followed by red, navy, mauve and gray.

1920's Short Skirt Misconception

People often assume that all dresses were short in every year of the twenties and that flappers were the only style. However, most dresses and coat lengths were to the calf for most of the decade. The flapper period, between 1926 and 1928, was the only period when evening and day dresses were both short enough to reveal the knees! Why the misconception? The movie industry that played up the flappers doing the "Charleston" probably had a lot to do with it.

What were 1920's fabrics and colors?

1920's fabrics included the likes of linen, cotton, and wool mixed with acetates, rayon and pure silk. Daytime clothing was medium to lightweight in crepes, georgette, knits, and light suiting with natural color tones of browns, blues and grays. Evening wear meant silk, in sheer chiffon and denser fabrics boasting of more vivacious colors. Prints for both day and night were common but as small, checks or floral. Want to add a little spice to your 1920's attire? Add a colorful boa, roll out those fishnet stockings, get a long, feminine cigarette holder and don those 72" beads to jazz up your outfit!

1920's Accessories

The necessity of the times brought along with it the creation of accessories for women! Cigarette cases and/or cigarette holders became available and useful jewelry (such as perfume scent bottle rings) was the "in" thing. Fishnet or incredibly shiny, but affordable rayon stockings hit the stores. And, evening time found ladies sporting feather headbands, 18" gloves and large strands of pearls. Coco Chanel made sun bathing so popular that Jean Patou invented the first sun tan oil called Chaldee.

1920 shoes as an accessory

Shoes had become an accessory item once the over-the-knee, fashionable "Flapper" dress permitted more visibility. Woman began to select their footwear more seriously, according to style and complimentary value. Heels were over 2 inches high and ankle strap button shoes called Mary Janes were in style. T bar shoes or others with buckles and bows made attention-grabbing fashion statements along with sequin or diamante trims that were customary.

Top Rated "1920s" Movie Titles

The Big Parade (1925), The Wind (1928/I), Metropolis (1927), Greed (1924), Safety Last! (1923), Napoléon (1927), The General (1927), Nibelungen: Siegfried, Die (1924), Faust (1926), The Last Command (1928), Kabinett des Doktor Caligari, Das (1920), The Kid Brother (1927), The Gold Rush (1925), The Crowd (1928), The Wedding March (1928), Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed, Die (1926), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), The Kid (1921), Letzte Mann, Der(1924), Tagebuch einer Verlorenen, Das Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922), Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, La (1928), The Cameraman (1928), Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925), He Who Gets Slapped (1924), Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache, Die (1924), Our Hospitality (1923), Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928), Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), The Circus (1928), Müde Tod, Der (1921), Seven Chances (1925), Körkarlen (1921), The Man Who Laughs (1928), The Freshman (1925), Stachka (1925), Girl Shy (1924), The Navigator (1924), Show People (1928), The Unknown (1927), Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler - Ein Bild der Zeit (1922), Oktyabr (1927), Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928), The Scarlet Letter (1926), Büchse der Pandora, Die (1929), Way Down East (1920), The Thief of Bagdad (1924), My Best Girl (1927), Seventh Heaven, Kurutta Ippeji (1926)

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The image above is an original oil painting titled "1920s Flapper Fashion Victims" by Juan Coronado

More 1920's Costume Ideas

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20's Showgirl

The man in your life will bust his buttons when he sees his 1920s showgirl! Created in the mold of the flapper costume, the 1920 showgirl's finery resembles the risqué Casino de Paris revue with lots of feathers and barely-there lingerie, loads of jewelry, fishnet stockings held by garter bands and, of course, high heel stilettos. Check out the white sequined roaring twenties costumes Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renee Zellweger wore at the end of Chicago!" Mentioning showgirls and Paris in the same breath brings to mind the "Can-Can". Women dancers lift their dresses up in front while kicking their legs up to the ceiling. Originally, the French word Can-Can meant "Scandal" or "Edge" since they performed the dance at the edge of the stage and the legs were bare from the stockings to the frilly panties.

Gangster Costume

Wanna be rough and tough? Grab that fedora or gangster hat, don that dapper pinstriped 20s outfit, add your tommy gun (replica of course) and you're ready to set your world on its rear! You might even pull off the 1920's Zoot suit, complete with double-breasted jacket and hip-hugger pants. Add a pair of wingtips or spats and you have completed your roaring twenties costume! Don't know what spats are? They are cloth or leather garters that cover the upper part of the shoe and ankle and are fastened underneath with a strap for the finishing touch!

Gangster Moll Costumes

Every gangster must have a "Moll". Dress yourself in a double-breasted pinstriped jacket and match it with a skirt (and stilettos) or hip-hugger pants. Just slip on a tie and you're dressed to kill! Remember that no respectable gangster's moll would go out without her replica Tommy gun! Did you know the Tommy gun's full name was Thompson submachine gun? It became infamous during Prohibition times and was used by both criminals and law officers. Other names for it were "Chicago typewriter" and "Chicago Piano".

1920's Maids and Butlers

Instead of the stereotypical flapper or 20's gangster costumes, try a roaring 20s maid costume accessorizing with a white cotton apron. Wear a black calf length dress and a white "muffin cap" and you can create the look of the prim and proper chambermaid that 1920's homes were clamoring for! However, if it's the sexy bedchamber maid look your going for, pick up some fish net stockings, a couple of "hot" garters, grab that feather duster, and voila'! Here's a little hint: If you plan on lighting candles for the bachelor Master of the house, dip them in salt solution or mild detergent for a few hours and place them in the freezer overnight - this will extend the life of the candles.

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