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Selvedge 95 / #McCalls150

May 21, 2020July 12, 2021by Sarah Sheehan4 Comments

I’m pleased to announce that I’m among the contributors to the upcoming Heritage issue of Selvedge Magazine. My piece is called “Maison McCall,” and it’s about McCall’s interwar couturier patterns. Update: Read a preview of my article here. Did you know McCall’s shares its founding year with the Metropolitan Museum of Art? Both are celebrating […]

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Neo-Egyptomania

December 31, 2022April 17, 2023by Sarah SheehanLeave a Comment

The tomb of Tutankhamun was rediscovered in November, 1922, making 2022 the centennial of all things King Tut. Yet as an early McCall transfer pattern shows, Neo-Egyptomania was already underway: “Egyptian Design for Dress Trimming” (McCall 1039) dates to spring 1920, but was still being advertised three years later, explicitly referencing the King Tut trend. […]

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