Fashion design archive. 1950s–1960s. This group documents mid-century women’s fashion design practice through a sustained body of original sketches and working notes, showing how garments were conceived, annotated, and prepared for construction during a period of stylistic transition in American dress. The material provides direct evidence of design thinking at.....
Fashion design archive, likely 1950s to 1960s, documenting women’s garment design during the mid-century through original working sketches that preserve both style development and the practical language of dressmaking. The archive is strongest as evidence of how women’s fashion was conceived on paper before production, with repeated attention to silhouette.....
[Fashion] Women’s fashion design sketches dated 1951 document the rapid transformation of female dress following the end of wartime rationing and the international adoption of Christian Dior’s “New Look” silhouette. These drawings show designers experimenting with narrow waists, structured bustlines, wide skirts, and dramatic outerwear styles that defined postwar femininity.....
Unknown designer, fashion illustration archive, circa 1950s–1960s, documenting women’s garment design and construction practices in the mid-twentieth century. The material operates in Cultural/Representational Mode, illustrating the aesthetics, technical processes, and stylistic evolution of women’s fashion during the postwar and early modernist period, and offering insight into how clothing design was.....
