Category: 1930s
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Game, Set, Match!
To mark the last day of Wimbledon… Interwar pattern catalogues often feature tennis outfits on the cover. The American artist Rico Lebrun went one further with his McCall Quarterly cover for Summer, 1930 by including a men’s tennis match in the background, as well as one player ready with her racket and tennis whites. (For…
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Selvedge 95 / #McCalls150
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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