Tag: Mad Men era
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Mad Men Era 1: The Old Guard I
To kick off my series on Mad Men-era designer patterns, we’ll be looking at four established couturiers who released designs through Vogue Patterns in the early 1960s: Jacques Heim, Madame Grès, Jo Mattli, and Jean Dessès. All four are associated with Paris and presided over a fashion house before the Second World War. The series…
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High Fashion in the Mad Men Era
If you’re a fan of Mad Men, you’ve probably heard that the next season won’t be airing until early 2012. In the interim, I thought it would be fun to look at sewing patterns from the period covered by the series so far: the first half of the sixties. Mad Men seasons 1-4 have covered…
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