Category: Designers
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Mad Men Era 8: McCall’s New York Designers
With Mad Men entering its final season, my Mad Men-era series concludes with two posts on fashion designers whose work became available to home sewers in the mid-Sixties. (Browse the series by clicking the Mad Men era tag, or start at the beginning.) Before the Vogue Americana line there was McCall’s New York Designers’ Collection. In…
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Schiaparelli Patterns, Part 2
This week, the second part of my series on commercial sewing patterns by Elsa Schiaparelli. (See Part 1 here.) Schiaparelli was one of the eight couturiers who licensed designs for the first Vogue Paris Originals in 1949. Vogue’s first Schiaparelli pattern was a skirt suit with double pockets and one-sleeved blouse, Vogue 1051: The suit…
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