Tag: Geoffrey Beene
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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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Mamma Mia: Designer Maternity Patterns
Last year, Peter of Male Pattern Boldness posted a general survey of vintage maternity patterns. Sewing patterns for designer maternity wear have a different history. In honour of Mother’s Day, here is a selection of designer maternity patterns from the ’70s to the ’90s. Some of the earliest patterns for designer maternity wear that I…
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