Textile industry

Scope and Contents Chair of the Marketing Department at the time of this interview, Eve Pollack explains the educational and professional trajectories that led her to a position at FIT in 1978. As her father was a textile converter, Eve found a career in buying haute couture to be a natural fit. She worked in the financial sector as well before being offered an adjunct position teaching a class called “Introduction to the Fashion Business,” at FIT. Pollack discusses the changes she has witnessed in both the...

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This collection is comprised of three series. The first series has 217 folders containing 190 scrapbooks that document the publicity, promotions, and advertising undertaken by the textile converting firm Everfast Fabrics, Inc. from 1921-1967. The second series has two folders containing loose swatch cards from the 1930s-1959 and the third series has one folder containing label samples from the 1930s-1967, all from Everfast Fabrics, Inc.

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This series has one folder containing loose pages with over 200 woven fabric labels and printed hang tags from Everfast Fabrics' collaborations with department stores and designers in the 1930s-1960s.

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This series has 217 folders containing 190 scrapbooks that document the publicity, promotions, and advertising undertaken by the textile converting firm Everfast Fabrics, Inc., from 1921-1967. There are newspaper and magazine clippings, promotional materials, photographs, fabric swatches, business correspondence, and other miscellaneous paper ephemera.

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This series has two folders containing an assortment of loose fabric swatch cards from about the 1930s-1959 from Everfast Fabrics. There are also some associated newspaper clippings.

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Photocopied, pasted, and laminated articles concerning the "Made In America" campaign to support domestic textiles and apparel, including articles from California Apparel News. Folder also contains two folders of promotional materials from the Crafted with Pride in U.S.A. Council.

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This is a small collection of textile industry logs created in the day-to-day business activities of Stern and Stern Textile Importers, Inc. They are dated from 1935 to 1965, and were likely used to provide quotes for custom weaving of textiles. In addition to the log pages, there is some correspondence and other documents pertaining to the business.