Category: 1920s
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Worth: Inventing Haute Couture
In Paris, a major exhibit devoted to the House of Worth is entering its final weeks. Hosted by the city’s Musée des Beaux-Arts in collaboration with the Palais Galliera, the show offers visitors a rare glimpse of 19th-century designs by Charles Frederick Worth, the pioneer of haute couture, as well as later pieces from the…
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Sewing with Hudson’s Bay
With its Hudson’s Bay Company branding, this 1920s Vogue Patterns leaflet recalls a time when Canadians could find high-end sewing supplies at their local seventeenth-century-trading-company-turned-department-store. The leaflet from March, 1929 is part of the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives at the Archives of Manitoba. (Click image below to enlarge.) Under the old gothic-lettering wordmark, it shows…
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