Toast & Jam, Berlin's Vintage Fashion Fair

For the first time ever Berlin is having a vintage fashion fair called Toast & Jam. The name plays on Bread & Butter which is the name of the fashion week fair hosted at Tempelhof Airport across the street. I'll be there on the 19th and 20th of January at the Etsy booth and my fabulous assistant will be there on Saturday afternoon. Saturday evening there will also be a burlesque show at the closing party. Yowsa!

Here's a preview of a few of the items I'll have there for sale (not including a truly adorable cream-colored vintage 1950s taffeta dress!)

'Toast & Jam' by curiousknopf

Vintage items from my shop that will be for sale at the Toast & Jam Vintage Fashion Fair in Berlin starting this Thursdayhttp://www.toastandjam.de/

Vintage Carmen Lace Maxi Dre... CuriousKnopf $34.00	Vintage Folk Skirt / White /... CuriousKnopf $26.00	Vintage Full Skirt / German ... CuriousKnopf $26.00
Vintage 1960s Cloche / Mohai... CuriousKnopf $22.50	Vintage 1960s Cloche / Tomat... CuriousKnopf $25.00	80s Secretary Blouse / Satee... CuriousKnopf $17.00
Vintage 1960s Little Black D... CuriousKnopf $36.00	1970s Circle Skirt / White w... CuriousKnopf $26.00	Vintage Sheer and Lacy Lipst... CuriousKnopf $12.00
Novelty Print Blouse / Vinta... CuriousKnopf $24.00	1940s Brocade Dress / Azure ... CuriousKnopf $60.00	Vintage Dressing Gown / Ita... CuriousKnopf $16.50
1970s Maxi Dress / Red and W... CuriousKnopf $21.00	60s Sweater Dress Brown and ... CuriousKnopf $36.00	1980s Pencil Skirt Lipstick ... CuriousKnopf $16.50
Vintage 1960s Hawaiian Dream... CuriousKnopf $14.00

Treasury tool by Red Row Studio.

Hope to see you there! xo xo Rebeccah

Vintage Make-Up Tips

I've recently realized that I have no idea how to properly apply make-up, especially for taking photographs. Whenever I put on eye makeup my eyes looked automatically smaller and I always looked way too pale and unglamorous when I posed in the vintage clothing I sell on Curious Knopf.

Well, all I have to say is thank god for the internet. Last night I got some tips on vintage make-up from Super Kawaii Mama. You can see the results in the photographs above. I'm wearing a fair amount of make-up in both, but it still looks natural and not too made up but also not too underdone. The two videos I watched are below. I like how down to earth she is and pleasant to listen to which is good because she has a lot of other great videos to watch.

xo xo Rebeccah

Happy New Year!

2012 is finally here and it's the year of the dragon nonetheless! In honor of the New Year I'm offering a sale in my vintage clothing shop.

25% off of everything from German vintage treasures, vintage dirndls, vintage circle skirts, vintage dresses from the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, oh my!

But act fast because the sale will be running for the first two weeks of January only. To visit my shop and save, click here.

xoxo Rebeccah

Skirts Galore

As I expand my shop I've also been on the hunt for lots of great vintage circle skirts and vintage German Trachten "Dirndl" skirts like the one above. Although I also have some classics for sale like this lipstick red vintage 1980s pencil skirt or this Japanese school girl vintage 1960s wool plaid skirt, most of my finds have definitely been on the sweet and sassy folkloric side. Here's a peek at some of the highlights.

Vintage German Folk Pencil Skirt with Lederhosen-like Embroidery, a Linen Blend

Gorgeous Royal Purple Handmade Vintage Circle Skirt with Blue Batik Trim, Will Fit Most

Gorgeous Vintage German Trachten Skirt with a Lovely Sheen in Teal Plaid with Adorable Faux Pearl Trim


Festive Vintage German Folk Trachten Dirndl Skirt in Dark Red with Black and Gold Stripes and an Ingenious Waist System that Makes it Wearable for Any Size

Happy vintage shopping!

A New Look For Curious Knopf

As of last Monday I'm renting a small basement room so I can expand my vintage clothing shop (and also better store items from my photography shop.) I've been running the shop out of my apartment but our place is not that big and we have literally no storage space (why have they never heard of closets in Berlin?!?!) so for over a year vintage clothing has been literally coming out of our ears....

The room is a ten minute walk from my apartment and part of a juggling school/shop so I've already seen lots of amazing circus acts when I've been working there. The light was a big problem though and hanging the gray backdrop in just the right way was also a big challenge. A few days ago I started to despair when I thought I was going to have to shell out big bucks for studio equipment and those are big bucks I definitely don't have.


But then I found some great information on how to set up a photo studio on a budget from things you find at the hardware store (if you can read German, check out the article here.) I need to do a little bit of tweaking (still need to build that styrofoam tower to reduce the shadows...) but I think they turned out ok. And it all cost me way less than a 100 Euros which is even better. I'm going to be expanding Curious Knopf a whole heck of a lot in the coming months, so stay tuned.

Friends Sometimes Do Have Benefits

As a special promotion to all of my Facebook fans, I'm offering free shipping on all vintage clothing until the end October. To participate is easy. Just click here, become a fan and then go to my shop and choose out what you like. Let me know in the notes to seller box that you are taking part in the Facebook promotion and I will refund you the shipping price over PayPal. If you want to buy later or just feel like saying hi, then become my fan anyway. I'm often offering special deals through Facebook and that way you'll be the first to know.

xoxo Rebeccah

Seeing Double

For a month or so I've been posting a lot of new vintage clothing finds in my shop with a double image. Unfortunately I've noticed the pieces have gotten very low views, I'm assuming because most searches on etsy are done with a thumbnail version which means they would be very hard to see. Still, I do think they look cool. Here's some of my favorites, soon to be changed to improve my views! :(