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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PepperAnna, post: 5754852, member: 17332&quot;]My parents took us to antique stores, swap meets and flea markets every weekend. They collected all sorts of things. I always enjoyed searching for &quot;treasures&quot;. My first real buy was a 1950s dress with a stand up &quot;Snow White&quot; collar in a beautiful teal satin with a inverted triangular black velvet insert in the front set with rhinestones. The skirt had cording sewn to the back of the satin in a spider web pattern. It was complete with crinoline. I wore it for my high school graduation and for many years thereafter.&nbsp; It was a homemade dress, not a store bought one.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was 1980. I found it at a clothing warehouse in downtown Washington DC. It was filled with piles and piles of clothes 15-20 feet high. You went in and were given a paper shopping bag for $10. Whatever you could fit in the bag was yours. People tried on clothes standing on the piles, so everyone was I different stages of undress. The friend who took me there knew this and so we arrived in leotards and baggy jeans, which made it very easy to try clothes on.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I collect primarily antique jewelry, specifically cameos. Here is a little bit of my collection. [ATTACH=full]416902[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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