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Trigère Designs for McCall’s, 1956
View post: Trigère Designs for McCall’s, 1956Pauline Trigère, who settled in America after fleeing Nazism in Europe, appears in this 1956 advertisement for McCall’s Printed Patterns. The model wears McCall’s 3827.
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Betsey Johnson: Butterick Patterns
View post: Betsey Johnson: Butterick PatternsBetsey Johnson turns 75 today. Four decades on, the designer’s 1970s Butterick patterns are still very popular. Here’s a look at Johnson’s early work, with an emphasis on more seldom seen archival images. Betsey Johnson (b. 1942) has made a career of creating irreverent, youth-oriented clothes that stand a bit outside the mainstream. She learned…
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