Tag: vintage
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Advance Paris Styles for February, 1939
Happy Tartan Day! This cover for the February 1939 issue of McCall Advance Paris Styles celebrates tartan and colour. Illustrator Blanche Rothschild gives her model a green handbag and long green hat feathers to match the green in her (mostly red) tartan jacket. The pattern is McCall 3077, a dress and strong-shouldered jacket that was…
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Patterns in Vogue: The Landfarers in Iceland
Synthetic fur and wool knits usher in the ’70s in “The Landfarers,” a John Cowan Iceland editorial featuring two coats made from Vogue patterns. The Vogue team ranged across the south of Iceland for the twenty-page portfolio, in which model Cynthia Korman poses in dramatic subarctic landscapes: from black beaches, waterfalls, and the Vatnajökull and…
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