Tag: V&A
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Free Designer Pattern: Mary Quant Georgie Dress
As part of its recent Mary Quant exhibit, the V&A shared a pattern for an early Quant design. The Georgie dress dates to the Bazaar days, before Quant’s deal with Butterick. The V&A’s Georgie dress— purchased new in Truro, Cornwall — is striped cotton lined with cotton batiste. As Quant’s archive shows, the dress was…
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Free Designer Pattern: Juliana Sissons Hobble Dress
As part of the current V&A exhibition, Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s, Juliana Sissons is sharing a pattern for a hobble dress designed in 1984 for London club kid Scarlett Cannon. In the early 1980s, Sissons had an in-club boutique, Call Me Madam, at London’s Heaven nightclub, where Cannon hosted the Cha…
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