throughhiker
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posted on September 29, 2002 01:17:26 PM
O.K. my white beard is down to my toes and I have been asleep under a tree for a looong time! There are over 7,000 listings with "Shabby Chic" in the heading. Everything from purses to pee pots and they are all described as Shabby Chic. Is this an era? Is it a style? Why does it fit so many catagories?
It appears to me that it refers to "I just bought it at the neighborhood yard sale and now you should own it"
I'm sure someone in this fine group knows.
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on September 29, 2002 01:25:12 PM
It's junk. Just as you suspected.
(Next time you're in the bookstore, flip through the book _Shabby Chic_. It's the cause of this seller laziness.)
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toybuyer
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posted on September 29, 2002 01:40:55 PM
.....and, technically, the words are registered in the VERO program; the words being trademarked by the woman who coined the phrase (maybe someone knows her name). Any one of those auctions could be cancelled by eBay if they receive a complaint on it. As you can see, eBay doesn't do much unless they receive a complaint. Some people try to avoid putting the words next to each other (ie...this item will look chic in your shabby home decor...)
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rampaged
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posted on September 29, 2002 01:52:42 PM
Check out the following and maybe you'll understand it a little more.
http://www.shabby-elegance-online.com/
Seems to me it's a sloppy way of decorating, but many are crazy about it.
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Roadsmith
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posted on September 29, 2002 01:56:15 PM
Shabby Chic decorating can be wonderful. In moderation, though. If you can imagine owning some old family heirlooms, maybe a grandmother's beautiful but chipped pitcher, a coffee table with some obvious wear, but well loved, a table doily that's nearly perfect, an old quilt, these are shabby chic. Shabby because they're old and loved and imperfect (like most of us). Lots of goods can honestly fit into this category--even clothing for the funky-dressing people.
Trouble is when people buy a perfectly good table and distress it with paint which has then been chipped and cracked on purpose. See a whole roomful of this crap, and you see why shabby chic may well be going out of fashion. Misused or overused.
I hear that the new decorating craze/phase may be "Paris Apartment"--the gilt and other stuff that is also used and loved but started out fancier than the items mentioned above.
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Libra63
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posted on September 29, 2002 01:59:23 PM
Here's the scoop:
shabbyThreadbare and faded from wear., ill kept, dilapidated. clothed with worn or seedy garments, mean despicable, ungenerous, unfair, inferior in quality slovenly.
chic]easy elegance and sophistication of dress or manner, style, clererly stylish, smart, currently fashionable.
Doesn't this sound like everything that is on sale or sells on eBay, and everyone that sells on ebay. I know I am some of the above and I know my sales are most of the above.
eBay couldn't get rid of all the Shabby Chic because they would have no auctions. So much for the Patent lawsuit. Just Vero everything.
[ edited by Libra63 on Sep 29, 2002 02:01 PM ]
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gina50
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posted on September 29, 2002 02:15:30 PM
Funny .. 2 years ago when I took interior design .. our teacher said Shabby Chic will be out of style and never last !! Ha Ha !!
It is better than ever and up at the real live mall .. anything with white or off white chippy paint sells in a minute while the rest sits !!
It does look best combined with real pretty items & nice antiques with great vintage textiles,, you know .. don't over do the shabby !!
Paris Apt .. think heavy drapes .. jeweled tone antique hues ....velvets ..... dark woods and antiqued gold tones .....heavy carpets ...vintage photos ...old dress forms ... all the stuff that collects dust big time .. if you have allergies .. forget about it !! LOL !!
NOT gina50 on ebay
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throughhiker
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posted on September 29, 2002 02:37:56 PM
Thanks Guys, this is to cool. I had no idea my chipped and stained stuff consisted of a "look". You mean my decorator style is in but may be on it's way out? Just like Bell Bottoms OOPs sorry, Flares. What goes around comes around.
It is funny to look at the varied items that sellers are calling Shabby Chic. I would say the lines are not to well defined.
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ptimko
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posted on September 29, 2002 03:00:34 PM
And here I am living as a student with used furniture and old dishes that I can't afford to replace and I didn't even realize that I was in style... 
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hair2dye4
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posted on September 29, 2002 09:28:42 PM
You mean my house has style too? Shabby sounds better then "ebay decor" which is all over the place ready to list...you all just saved me a fortune on a decorator! Im in style..
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Libra63
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posted on September 29, 2002 11:29:09 PM
If shelves are Shabby Chic then I am right in style. Of course cluttered with eBay stuff.
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rgrem
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posted on September 30, 2002 07:35:44 AM
Shabby Chic is how we used to furnish and decorate cottages in northern Wisc. It all came from yard sales and junk stores in the '50s and '60s. The old table was covered with green-checkered "oil cloth"; dishes (some chipped) were from 20 different patterns; the wash basin was chipped enamal; cups were all give-aways from 10 different old stores; etc. etc. etc. On every trip from Madison to Hayward we stopped along the way and picked up more shabby-chic, 10c here, a quarter there! Was fun. LOL
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shawnb1
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posted on September 30, 2002 09:36:43 AM
Have you ever seen a teen girl with those lo-rise jeans that show her butt crack and almost everything else (including the thong she is wearing) and the seat is faded to almost white but they are brand new? That's what I would call shabby chic. They sure are shabby but oh my, she sures looks good in them.
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sanmar
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posted on September 30, 2002 10:15:35 AM
During the 50's I was in the Navy & we decorated our apt. with "Early Salvation Army" sounds like the same junk.
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MAH645
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posted on September 30, 2002 01:31:45 PM
Its what you call fixing up your outhouse! You know ceiling fan, wall paper, new corncobs!
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rgrem
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posted on September 30, 2002 01:32:10 PM
yep, sanmar. Same stuff. In fact some of it probably really was the same stuff! LOL.
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paloma91
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posted on September 30, 2002 05:16:05 PM
Shabby Chic! I am laughing so hard!!! I guess that fits me to a tee more or less. I am doing the last bit of work to get ready for my last garage sale of the year. This time I have added alot of things I have given up selling on ebay or just found it isnt worth it to try.
I look around this house and see boxes and boxes with "stuff" oozing out of the tops, awaiting my pricing stickers Then I see my mom's antique chairs in the middle of the mess, and her art deco stuff on the walls.
Maybe after this garage sale and good will run, I will again be very shabbily Chic eee
HAHAHAHAHAHA
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