{"id":959,"date":"2013-08-08T13:40:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T18:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/?p=959"},"modified":"2015-07-09T13:56:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T13:56:19","slug":"goodwill-vintage-clothing-inspires-pet-couture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/goodwill-vintage-clothing-inspires-pet-couture\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodwill Vintage Clothing Inspires Canine Couture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest Blog by \u00a0Annette Kaiser, Goodwill Keystone Area<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

You never know what you’ll find at Goodwill Keystone Area\u2019s Tilghman Square store in Allentown, PA. Two regular\u00a0customers at the gently used clothing racks are fashion designers Maribel and Jana Nieves, a mother-daughter team who own a studio called\u00a0Bel Bijoux Couture in Allentown, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

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Maribel and Jana Nieves, a mother-daughter team, in their studio.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While their shop looks like any\u00a0other\u00a0design studio \u2014 with spools of brightly colored\u00a0thread\u00a0and coat trees draped with rich textures and fabrics \u2014 the design pages and patterns folded neatly in rows of hangers are in miniature. That\u2019s because this couture isn\u2019t designed for humans, it\u2019s designed for their pets.<\/p>\n

The Nieves\u00a0specialize in one-of-a-kind pet coats and were recently featured on NAT GEO WILD\u2019s \u201cSpoiled Rotten Pets.\u201d\u00a0 Their\u00a0 favorite place to shop for material\u00a0is the Goodwill store\u00a0in Allentown,\u00a0\u00a0because the selections of vintage clothes and modern fashions spurs their imagination and gives them endless choices for fabrics, buttons and other accessories that go into their line.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we work with a customer, they tell us what colors and type of fabric they would like,” said Jana\u00a0Nieves. “We go to Goodwill, browse all sorts of pieces from skirts to jackets, from coats and pants. Once we find something that meets the description, we\u2019ll take a picture and send it to them. You never know what you will find at Goodwill.\u201d<\/p>\n

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These fashionable dogs had their custom outfits created from Goodwill finds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jana Nieves says she can design and create up to three pieces from one Goodwill garment.\u00a0 Unlike the \u201csleepy\u201d bolted fabrics found on the shelves of retail textile stores, \u201cthe pieces we find at Goodwill have a certain life to them that transform into beautiful pieces.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information on Bel Bijoux Couture, visit t www.belbijouxcouture.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Custom coats start at $55 and are guaranteed to fit your life, your style and your pet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guest Blog by \u00a0Annette Kaiser, Goodwill Keystone Area You never know what you’ll find at Goodwill Keystone Area\u2019s Tilghman Square store in Allentown, PA. Two regular\u00a0customers at the gently used clothing racks are fashion designers Maribel and Jana Nieves, a mother-daughter team who own a studio called\u00a0Bel Bijoux Couture in Allentown, Pennsylvania. While their shop…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,26],"tags":[38,57,119,69,91,107,109],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2100,"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/2100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}