Tag: Vogue Patterns
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The YSL Mondrian Dress at 60
It’s Couture Week in Paris, and the Mondrian collection is turning sixty. Yves Saint Laurent presented his iconic Fall-Winter 1965 haute couture collection, Homage to Piet Mondrian, in summer, 1965, making 2025 the 60th anniversary of the Mondrian dress. I first wrote about this collection back in 2012, not long after I first started this…
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Sewing with Hudson’s Bay
With its Hudson’s Bay Company branding, this 1920s Vogue Patterns leaflet recalls a time when Canadians could find high-end sewing supplies at their local seventeenth-century-trading-company-turned-department-store. The leaflet from March, 1929 is part of the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives at the Archives of Manitoba. (Click image below to enlarge.) Under the old gothic-lettering wordmark, it shows…
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