Tag: vintage
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Alive! Summer ’80
The swimwear styles might have been changing with the decade, but the disco era shines through in the design details of these Summer 1980 swimsuits. Two Crayola-coloured swimsuits are featured: on the left is McCall’s 7084, while the other two are different views of McCall’s 7109 by Basile. (Previously featured in my designer swimwear post.)…
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Game, Set, Match!
To mark the last day of Wimbledon… Interwar pattern catalogues often feature tennis outfits on the cover. The American artist Rico Lebrun went one further with his McCall Quarterly cover for Summer, 1930 by including a men’s tennis match in the background, as well as one player ready with her racket and tennis whites. (For…
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