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Fashion illustrations, mostly from Simplicity and Butterick dressmaking patterns, from the 1930s….

Categories: Clothing
Tagged: 1930s, bias, butterick, cutting, dressmaking, fashion, illustrations, patterns, simplicity, thirties, vionnet

14 Jan 2010 Posted by Sharon Comments (1)

Above: Gertrude Lawrence 1931

Above: 1935 purple satin Jeanne Lanvin gown, 1930s Madeleine Vionnet gown

Above: Gown from the modern fashion house of Vionnet, Fall 2007 collection

Read more about Madeleine Vionnet and her bias cutting innovations in the 1930s here

Categories: Clothing
Tagged: 1930s, bias, cut, gown, jeanne, lanvin, madeleine, thirties, vionnet

16 Apr 2009 Posted by Sharon Comments (1)