GIOVANNIS LINENS AND HANDKERCHIEFS IS CLOSING AFTER NINETY-EIGHT YEARS
Saying good-by is never easy, and after 98 years, GIOVANNIS LINENS AND HANDKERCHIEFS will close its doors and website at the end of June, 2025. Items on our website are very limited, based on the unavailability and high quality of varied linen and cotton goods which have kept us in the business started by my mother, Jennie DiGiovanni, back in the year 1927 on the Atlantic City Boardwalk. We will accept orders through June 30 , still offering free shipping on orders of $60 or more. Now is the time to think of purchases you might wish to make for Christmas, Hanukkah, special gifts, birthdays, brides, men’s and ladies’ initials, and for collectors of beautiful handkerchiefs. After all these years, we thank you for your recognition of the high quality of our goods and the service we have delivered throughout our history, keeping in mind our motto: “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
Sincerely,
Maria DiGiovanni Walters
Featured Fine Ladies and Mens handkerchiefs

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Superb men’s Italian cotton handkerchief
Linen hand embroidered Shamrocks
Not your grandfather’s handkerchief
Linen Madeira hand embroidered hearts
A truly distinctive Picasso fine Italian print
Ladies’ hand initialed cotton handkerchief
Madeira hand embroidery on fine Swiss cotton
Men’s hand initialed fine cotton handkerchief
We are known from coast to coast for our extensive handkerchief collection for both ladies and men, maintaining a large and varied stock at all times. Our collection includes handkerchiefs imported from Ireland, Italy, Madeira (Portugal), Switzerland, Scotland, France, Spain, Belgium, the Orient and England. Our stock always includes handkerchiefs made from pure linen, linen and cotton blends, and all cotton. Unless otherwise stated, all of our handkerchiefs are washable.
Celebrating 98 years Of quality and service.
Family owned since 1927
About Giovanni’s
Handkerchiefs Are Our Business
Giovanni’s and Co. LLC. is a small family-owned and operated business that literally began in a suitcase in 1927. The suitcase, filled with magnificent imported linens, laces and finery, was carried by founder, Jennie Martino DiGiovanni, a petite Italian lady who sold her fine goods to the vacationing carriage trade in Atlantic City, Ventnor and Margate, New Jersey. more…