Made from dead-stock vintage fabric, they are available in three styles: standard, slimline and three-button.

To recreate the one-of-a-kind dress in the vintage fabric, Mr. Duke estimated, would cost $24,000.

Highlights include outdoorsy gear, spiffy barware, suits made of vintage fabric and hunting items that, at least stylistically, are guaranteed never to misfire.

Their buyer made me experiment in design - new ways of holding hair and vintage fabrics.

Unused vintage fabrics are also sold by the metre at reasonable prices, providing budding designers and tailors with cheap and unique materials.

The vintage fabric, a bold print from the 1960's, leads to a revival of palazzo pants.

Among their current offerings are a 1960 wrought iron chair by Dan Johnson, above, reupholstered in a red vintage fabric ($2,800).

These facts make recycled, reclaimed, surplus, and vintage fabric arguably the most sustainable choice, as the raw material requires no agriculture and no manufacturing to produce.

Perhaps the stacks of vintage fabrics that fill an entire room.

Her dolls wear coats made of vintage fabrics - velvet, leather and fur from old coats.