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Text by Ellen Gardner •
Styling by Rosemary Warren
By the time Marcia Ceppos was 9 years
old, she knew the difference between sequins and sutach. Her grandfather, Arch
J. Bergoffen, worked for the French Tinsel Co. and eventually bought it in 1933,
renaming it Tinsel Trading Company.
The business originally specialized in
metallic threads (called
tinsel in France) and adornments of all sorts.
“Starting when I was 11,
I’d take the subway from Queens to Manhattan on
Saturdays to help my
grandfather at his store in the garment district,” Marcia
says.
(a) A swag fashioned
from vintage flowers and leaves and (b) a wreath fit for the Queen of the May, both
made by Tinsel Trading stylist Rosemary Warren. “Some brides prefer fabric
flower wreaths to fresh flowers as keepsakes.” (c) A tiny carnation in
deep blue once adorned a stylish hat.(d)
Rosemary Warren created this framed work that
includes lily-of-the-valley millinery flowers, antique paper doilies, and wisps
of vintage lace. (e) A trio of cotten daisy sprays in sweet pastels. (f) An antique glove form
is gussied up with a vibrant red rose from Czechoslovakia, where most floral
trim was made before the 1950s. The rose wears its original tag.
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