World War, 1939-1945

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This collection holds a small scrapbook containing mostly newspaper clippings along with magazine tear sheets and a note collected by George Linton of Linton Tweeds. A note on the front of the book states, "Fashion and style scrap book on efforts of New York City to take over the center of fashion and style following the demise of the French in June, 1940."

Scope and Contents This folder contains large sketches of pencil, color pencil, watercolor, and pen designs for womenswear. The designs are uniforms for women war workers and were created in 1942. 1 sketch is attached to a paperboard and other has fabric samples included. There are also 3 copies of a color print of a Camel Cigarette ad in which Vera Maxwell and her designs appear. The ad was released in Life, Time, Vogue, and Harper's Bazar magazine in 1942. Also, included are 7 illustrations of watercolor...

Scope and Contents Peter Scotese, the Chair of the board of trustees at FIT, joined in 1970. He discusses his appointment to the Board of Education and his advantageous textile manufacturing experience as the CEO of Spring Industries. Scotese lists board members he worked with at the start and later notes how the board has increased its reach. He describes the on-going support that the Educational Foundation for the Fashion Industries provides FIT and touts the unique offerings of the school such as the...

Scope and Contents Includes the advertisitng flyer, schedule of events, papers, and presentations delivered at the 2006 Symposium "Forgotten Fashion" which occurred on May 6, 2006 from 11:00am to 5:00pm. Ten Graduate Students from the School of Graduate Studies delivered presentations. Each presenter's paper and presentation is represented. Keynote address, "A Season of Cellophane Everywhere: Cellophane Fashions 1932-1936," was given by Claire Sauro, but her presentation is not included in the file. The names...

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Includes the papers and presentation delivered at the 2016 Symposium The names of the presenters and the title of their presentations contained in this folder are: Rebecca Love "Economic Crisis and the Bloomingdale's Experience" ; Samuel Neuberg "Dressing for Revolution: An Analysis of Dress in 'The Memoirs of Madame de la Tour du Pin'" ; Laura Donovan "New Women, New Clothes: Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Fashion Photography, and World War II" .