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Article: THE ONE TO SWATCH; WITH OVER 250,000 PIECES OF VINTAGE FABRIC IN ITS ARCHIVES, TAG SALE TEXTILES DRAWS DESIGNERS AND RETAILERS ALIKE.
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- Daily News Record
- Article date:
- August 27, 2007
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Byline: Linda Dyett
In February of 2001, a designer by the name of Claude Brown was browsing through the swatch archives at a Garment District textile studio when he spotted a 3x3-inch square pink box of foil ashtrays displaying cartoon dogs dressed for a party. In script beneath each dog was an appropriately catty remark. (For a schnauzer wearing a fox stole, the words were "She got it wholesale." For a beret-wearing dachshund with a cocktail in its paw: "My third martini.") The ashtray set was one of several non-cloth curiosities that the studio's vintage-department head, Wendy Greenberg, offered for sale as objects of inspiration.
Brown purchased the ...
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Article: Holiday tag sale set for Nov. 20
New Haven Register;
November 5, 2004 ;
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... ... Hilltop Hose Company will hold its "Holiday Tag Sale" from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 20 ... Pulaski Highway. This will be the final tag sale of the season. All proceeds from the firehouse tag sale will be used to restore and maintain the ...
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