Tag: illustration
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Advance Paris Styles for Summer, 1936
Divided dress โ or cropped jumpsuit? Whatever you call it, McCall’s illustrator Blanche Rothschild gave us two of them on this cover for Summer, 1936, in candy-coloured prints. The pattern is McCall 8702, which the envelope calls a sports dress with divided skirt. But the catalogue uses a simpler name for the new style. Inside,…
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Game, Set, Match!
To mark the last day of Wimbledon… Interwar pattern catalogues often feature tennis outfits on the cover. The American artist Rico Lebrun went one further with his McCall Quarterly cover for Summer, 1930 by including a men’s tennis match in the background, as well as one player ready with her racket and tennis whites. (For…
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