Tag: ready-to-wear
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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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Vogue 2248 by Alexander McQueen for Givenchy
I made the first of my patterns by Alexander McQueen for Givenchy: the cowl-neck sheath dress, Vogue 2248. (See my earlier post here.) I had planned to make the dress in my default black, and had even bought some mesh for the contrast cowl neck. But when I started looking back over runway photos from…
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