Clothing workers

Scope and Contents This folder contains 26 fashion plates: 1) Modes Parisiennes Observateur des Modes, 12 men's plates, 2 women's plates, c. 1821-1822; 2) Le Conseiller des Graces, 2 women's plates, 1828-1829; 3) 2 men's plates, "Histoire du Costume (de Louis XVI au Second Empire)", 1822-1826; 4) La Mode, 1 men's plate, 1 women's plate, c. 1829; 5) 1 men's plate, "Newest Parisian Walking Dregs", c. 1822; 6) 1 women's plate, "Costume de M.elle Jenny Colon, rôle de Denise Fourcy"; 7) 1 women's plate, "Moden Z....

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This collection consists of primary source material from various fashion-related sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The majority of the sources are fashion plates and tear sheets, but there are also sketches, photographs, and advertisements. Most of the images reflect women's and men's fashions, with some children's fashions, as indicated.

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This folder contains a black & white negative depicting a model woman wearing a Maxwell dress. Also, included are black & white prints. One depicts a model woman wearing a Maxwell outfit in a photo shoot. Other prints depict employees working in a garment factory and other print depicts a foot of a model exhibiting a Maxwell boot.

Scope and Contents Chair of the Manufacturing and Management Department at the time of this interview, Saul Smilowitz discusses his life at FIT. He began as a student, graduating in 1953, and returned to teach in 1965 and again in 1989 after a brief hiatus. He talks about FIT’s dress code in the 1950s and how the student body has evolved over the years. Smilowitz discusses the department’s difficulty in recruiting for middle management positions in the industry. He describes their upcoming evaluation by the...