Fashion designers -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Arnold Scaasi fashion sketches and swatches, 1966-1992
Charles James collection, 1955-1977
Papers related to possible transfer of materials to the FIT Special Collections in the 1970's.
Harry Besserman collection, circa 1960-1969
Color photographs with corresponding color slides of womenswear, including crepe, knit jersey, taffeta, linen, organza, brocade, fabrics.
Joseph Whitehead collection, circa 1920-1959
This collection contains sketches, photographs and scrapbooks pertaining to the career of fashion designer Joseph Whitehead.
Kalle Originals sketches
Three original design renderings done in gouache and pencil on vellum depicting womenswear, stamped Kalle Originals with a street address on Broadway, New York NY. While they are undated based on the style and silouhette they are presumed to be from the 1940s.
Kay Bell photographs
Kay Bell was a well-known fashion photographer whose work appeared in Vogue among other publications in the 1950s and 1960s. These two prints have no notation as to where or when they were published; one depicts a woman in a short striped dress with a belt and sandals on a beach, and the other depicts a Scandinavian-type scene with a blonde woman wearing a plaid dress riding a bicycle in the mountains.
Mabel Johnston sketches, circa 1920-1939
Original color sketches from the 1920s-1930s of eveningwear, daywear, suits, loungewear, and theatrical designs for Earl Carroll and George M. Cohan musical reviews.
Mark Mooring collection, 1923-1959
Pat Sandler sketches
Philip Bonfield sketches, 1940-1949
Original sketches of womenswear and childrenswear designs.