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Create Your Brilliant Season
View post: Create Your Brilliant SeasonA Celanese advertising insert from the late 1950s shows McCall’s festive styles in the latest synthetic silks—top models and more than one tiara from the multinational chemical company that brought you cellulose acetate. The booklet frames small, full-length photos of McCall’s designs with close-ups showing off the “brilliant” textiles. Here, McCall’s 4999 is shown in…
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James Galanos: Vogue Patterns
View post: James Galanos: Vogue PatternsThis week, a look at the late James Galanos’ licensed Vogue patterns. (See my McCall’s post here.) 1960s Vogue Patterns introduced James Galanos patterns in late 1967, with two dress designs modelled by Maud Adams and Lauren Hutton. The counter catalogue promotes Galanos’ “masterful touch” with an alternate shot of Vogue 1854, an A-line dress…
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