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Schnurer, Carolyn (Unknown)

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Dates

  • Existence: Unknown

Biography

Carolyn Schnurer was born in New York City in 1908. She was a pioneer in the newly emerging American sportswear industry, marketing towards young and active women. Her designs successfully maintained a classic American silhouette while also incorporating the multicultural themes in fabric selection or construction detail.

Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

Newspaper Advertisements, Everfast 1947-1948 / Ready to Wear 1948-1949 - 1, 1947-1949

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Identifier: SC.411.1.127
Scope and Contents

This folder contains a scrapbook from 1947-1949 with newspaper clippings for women's, men's, and children's ready to wear made with Everfast Fabrics. There are designs from Joyce Hubrite, Cole of California, Jolyn Juniors, Kate Greenaway, and Carolyn Schnurer, sold at a variety of depertment stores, including Best & Co., Franklin Simon, and B. Altman.

Dates: 1947-1949

Newspaper Advertisements, Everfast 1947-1948 / Ready to Wear 1948-1949 - 2, 1947-1949

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Identifier: SC.411.1.128
Scope and Contents

This folder contains a scrapbook from 1947-1949 with newspaper clippings for women's, men's, and children's ready to wear made with Everfast Fabrics. There are designs from Joyce Hubrite, Cole of California, Jolyn Juniors, Kate Greenaway, and Carolyn Schnurer, sold at a variety of depertment stores, including Best & Co., Franklin Simon, and B. Altman.

Dates: 1947-1949

Newspaper Advertisements in Ready to Wear, 1949-1950 - 1, 1949-1950

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Identifier: SC.411.1.137
Scope and Contents

This folder contains a scrapbook from 1949-1950 with newspaper clippings for women's and children's ready to wear made with Everfast Fabrics. There are ads for fashions designed by Carolyn Schnurer, Joset Walker, Betty Barclay, Kay Dunhill, Kate Greenaway, Graff, and others.

Dates: 1949-1950

Newspaper Advertisements in Ready to Wear, 1949-1950 - 2, 1949-1950

 folder
Identifier: SC.411.1.138
Scope and Contents

This folder contains a scrapbook from 1949-1950 with newspaper clippings for women's and children's ready to wear made with Everfast Fabrics. There are ads for fashions designed by Carolyn Schnurer, Joset Walker, Betty Barclay, Kay Dunhill, Kate Greenaway, Graff, and others.

Dates: 1949-1950

Newspaper Publicity, 1946, 1946

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Identifier: SC.411.1.110
Scope and Contents This folder contains a scrapbook with newspaper clippings for women's wear and children's wear made with Everfast Fabrics. The ads are primarily for resort wear, summer dresses, and back-to-school children's wear. There are also are newspaper articles about current trends in fashion and fabrics, including the influence of tropical vacations on fashions. The ads feature designs by Carolyn Schnurer, Tina Leser, Claire McCardell, and Jacques Heim, as well as circus-inspired fashions by Emily...
Dates: 1946

Newspaper Publicity 1947-1948, 1948-1949, 1949-1950, 1950-1951, 1947-1951

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Identifier: SC.411.1.129
Scope and Contents

This folder contains a scrapbook from 1947-1951 with newspaper clippings for women's wear made with Everfast Fabrics. There are newspapers articles about current trends in cottons and fashions, and ads for sportswear, resort wear, and cruise wear, sold at department stores, including Lord & Taylor. There are fashions designed by Carolyn Schnurer, Mary Stevens, Ted Shore, Claire McCardell, and ads for sewing patterns from Simplicity.

Dates: 1947-1951

Panagra Promotion, Harper's Bazaar, January 1952, 1952

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Identifier: SC.411.1.150
Scope and Contents This folder contains a scrapbook from 1952 with photographs, magazine and newspaper clippings, and promotional materials for Everfast Fabric's "Panagra Colors in Everfast Cottons" promotion that was printed in the January issue of Harper's Bazaar. Participating designers included Claire McCardell, Mary Stevens, Carolyn Schnurer and Filcol, Inc. There are also hang tags, a list of participating retailers, South American travel brochures and promotional materials for Pan-American-Grace...
Dates: 1952

"Sunmere" by Everfast / "Mistysheer" by Everfast, 1945-1946, 1945-1946

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Identifier: SC.411.1.97
Scope and Contents

This folder contains a scrapbook from 1945-1946 with newspaper clippings and photographs of women's wear made with Sunmere and Mistysheer fabrics by Everfast. There are fashions designed by Peggy Thayer, David Crystal, Tina Leser, Frances Sider, Joset Walker, Emily Wilkens, Natalie Renke, and Carolyn Schnurer, as well as photographs of displays at Shillito's and Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co.

Dates: 1945-1946

Women's Wear Ads, 1945-1946, 1945-1946

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Identifier: SC.411.1.101
Scope and Contents

This folder contains a scrapbook from 1945-1946 with newspaper clippings for women's wear made with Everfast Fabrics. There are ads for fashions designed by Carolyn Schnurer, Frances Sider, Joset Walker, Tina Leser, and others.

Dates: 1945-1946

Women's Wear Advertisements, 1944, 1944

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Identifier: SC.411.1.67
Scope and Contents

This folder contains a scrapbook from 1944 with a series of magazine advertisements for fashions made with Everfast Fabrics. Each ad has an illustration of the outfit and a quote from the designer about why they enjoy working with Everfast Fabrics.

Dates: 1944