Author: Sarah Sheehan
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Sally Makes a Conquest
My J.C. Penney’s copy of the January 1939 McCall Style News has this fantastic comic strip advertising J.C. Penney’s fabric department (click to magnify): Four lessons I learned from this comic strip-advertisement: Hapless blondes need the help of sensible brunettes; Romantic/sexual/social conquests can be made through the power of sewing; Home sewing leads to female…
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Mad Men Era 3: London’s Old Guard
This week my series on designers of the Mad Men era continues with four couturiers associated with London: Ronald Paterson, John Cavanagh, Michael Donéllan, and Edward Molyneux. The first three, as heads of London couture houses in the postwar period, had their licensed designs released through Vogue’s Couturier line. (These designers aren’t all that well…
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