[japaneseghost]

I frequent the ebay vintage clothing board. There are many ladies who make a living from shopping in Salvation Army and Goodwill stores, yard sales and estate sales. They research the stuff and sell them on ebay.

The board is educational and explains different eras, patterns, etc. of vintage clothes.

There is one woman who sells 70's and 80's junk clothes, but has fantastic stylists and photos. She caters to teenyboppers with lots of cash. Mamastonevintage is the envy of ebay vintage sellers.

[manwiththehands]

Oh, wow, you mean hip-hugger bell-bottoms and tube tops are coming back??????!!!! FAR OUT, MAN! My first girlfriend wore that stuff ... and ... uh ... FAR OUT, MAN!

[nw_arizona_granny]

Watch for the old patterns at sales.

Don't laugh, but I went through mine a couple years ago and I still have the sewing patterns from the 1950's, not many up to date ones, but lots of old ones.

They sell for $25.00 and up, some get that much for reprints.

There are a couple of ladies on the Internet, that sell photocopies of toy patterns, at about $5.00 for 5 or 6 pages.

They are the old ones from 1950 back, the older the more expensive.

I did check a couple of the sellers sales lists for the toy patterns, it was in the thousands.

For that nice steady income, I could photocopy all day, as I would love envelopes with $5.00 bills coming in every day.

I long ago decided that selling information was a better project, than shipping the heavy stuff.

You will need to pay attention to the copy-write laws, which I am very out of date on.

Old lace and trims are valuable as is the actual materials, if in large enough pieces.

Estate sales are good places for fabrics and patterns.