Tag: vintage
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How Do You Spell Pride?
This Sunday marked the 50th anniversary of the first Pride march, in New York City, on the one-year anniversary of Stonewall. Despite being headquartered in New York, the big pattern companies have an uneven record of celebrating Pride — at least visibly, on social media. In past years, I’ve tweeted about this silence. A search…
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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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