Category: The pattern business
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Sewing and Smoking
Today is World No Tobacco Day. Here’s a look at a Virginia Slims ad that ran in Vogue Patterns magazine. The mid-’70s ad—with the famous You’ve come a long way, baby slogan—contrasts the fashionable, contemporary Cheryl Tiegs with the Edwardian “Mrs. Florine Knauff,” caught smoking during a fox hunt. Along the lower left-hand side, the…
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Summer 2018 Designer Pattern Highlights
The new designer patterns for Summer 2018 play with texture and special fabrics. Lace, seersucker, matelassé, waffle georgette, even a laser-cut textile makes an appearance. Vogue’s summer cover look is by Nicola Finetti. The matelassé cocktail dress with shaped hemline and flounce sleeves is from Nicola Finetti Fall 2016. Finetti also showed a longer, front-zip…
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