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Antica Modisteria Giuliana Longo
Want some fancy headgear? This is the millinery stop. From gondoliers' caps to the most extravagant ladies' hats and a range of imported fashion for the head, you'll find it all here. In the window and inside, all manner of extravagant ear coverings are displayed at jaunty angles.
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Attombri
For centuries, the long gallery running along the Palazzo dei Dieci Savi in Rialto glistened with the wares of the oresi (goldsmiths). Nowadays, about half a dozen gold and jewellery shops eke out a living here. Attombri is the exception. The inventive Byzantine-style jewellery constitutes a captivating and original collection, and not just in gold.
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Ca' Del Sole
Although much of what is on sale here is aimed at the theatre business, anyone can purchase a fantasy in this House of the Sun. The masks are of a high standard.
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Carraro
Stylish frames for glasses almost leap out at you in their colourful splendour and variety from this shop window. This is one of the best central stores for fashionable glasses with a bit of a difference.
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Codognato
Possibly the city's best-known jeweller, Codognato sells classic, antique and contemporary pieces that have attracted the likes of Jackie Onassis in their time. Whether she bought any of the pieces with the skulls motifs is unknown. Attilio Codognato continues the tradition of his ancestors, who opened the store in 1866.
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Fanny
Decided on an off-season trip to Venice in the quiet depths of winter and finding that your hands are freezing off? Drop by here for an extensive range of his and hers gloves in fine leather and a rainbow variety of colours.
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Il Grifone
A virtually décor-free shopfront disguises this one-man leather workshop where you can get to grips with quality handmade bags, belts, wallets and other leather objects for quite reasonable prices.
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Il Pavone
The dominant colours (blues, reds and yellows) and motifs (floral shapes, cherubs) at Il Pavone change from one day to another. The templates are applied to hand-printed paper as well as ties and T-shirts.
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L'angolo
Handbags drip off the walls in this pleasingly cluttered shop. Voluminous handbags come in printed velvet, practical bags abound, plus there's a range of odd little wrist bags.
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Laberinto
Necklaces made of little slabs of glass melted in such a way as to create all sorts of appealing mottled effects, above all in a range of blues and sea greens, are one star item here. Rings and earrings abound, inlaid with turquoise and opals.
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Margerie
Big silver studs wind their way over the smooth, stout leather in sky-blue or blood-red handbags. Some are shaped like fish or hearts, others are cuddly soft, still more are draped in great golden ribbons. Flower motifs abound. A key note is the almost childlike happy feeling they exude and much the same can be said of the chunky necklaces (again often with big, bright flowers, or even pompoms) and stuffed felt pins with sequins.
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Mazzon Le Borse
A modest workshop with none of the frippery of fashion lairs, Mazzon le Borse is frequented by canny Venetian women on the lookout for top-class, handmade leather bags and accessories.
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Mondonovo Maschere
One of Venice's master mask-makers, Guerrino Lovato, runs this higgledy-piggledy store, producing fine facial disguises for all and sundry, including, as he is not too bashful to point out, some of the models used by the late Stanley Kubrick for his last movie, Eyes Wide Shut .
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Monica Daniele
Ms Daniele is a hatter with a hint of madness. Hats pile up in crooked towers on the counter, behind the windows and in boxes on shelves. There's no room to swing a cat for all the hats: straw hats, floppy hats, fluffy hats, sun hats, berets and bonnets! And just to unnerve you a little, there hangs the odd example of the heavy woollen Venetian cape (that few Venetians wear anymore) known as the tabarro .
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Shary
In one window dangles a row of generous, wide ties in demanding primal and pastel colours, while in the other you'll find slinky scarves in the same kaleidoscopic array of colours.
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Valeria Bellinaso
With her experience in the Milan fashion circuits, Bellinaso has brought an inimitable touch of class to her pert little Venice boutique. Velours and silks, many of them in subtle denominations of carmine, burgundy and vermilion, are used to produce anything from scarfs to hats and gloves.
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Vergombello
This is a dark den of all that glistens, including rings, pendants and pins, some with minuscule moving parts. But you'd never know it was a high-end purveyor of jewellery, because it's also a workshop, with Bunsen burners, all sorts of microscopic jewellery tools and an inspired confusion.
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