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Title
Mode O'Day dress shop
Contributor
Gordon, John C. (photographer) (Creator)
Contributing Institution
San José State University, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
John C. Gordon Photographic Collection
Rights Information
Copyright is assigned to the San José State University Library Special Collections & Archives. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Special Collections & Archives as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader. Copyright restrictions also apply to digital reproductions of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
Description
Interior of a Mode O'Day dress shop. Dresses line the racks. There is a loveseat. Fitting rooms, with curtains for privacy, are located between racks of dresses. A sign above the dresses reads: "To promote your charm, wear a Mode o' Day frock. Especially design[ed] for y[ou]. Mode o' [Day]."
"Mode O’Day manufactured moderate-priced women’s clothing, marketing its goods in its own retail outlets throughout the western United States, usually on the main streets of small towns. Mode O’Day’s clothes were comfortably mid-Western, without the glamorous image of Southern California fashion." From: Los Angeles, California. Arcadia Publishing, p. 94 (http://books.google.com/books?id=rKrXXzJ1afMC&lpg=PA94&ots=Ymznjsu49a&dq=mode%20o%20day&pg=PA94#v=onepage&q=mode%20o%20day&f=false). The downtown store was located at 93 S. First Street. Other locations included Los Gatos, Valley Fair Shopping Center, and Sunnyvale.
Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
8 x 10 in.
Identifier
islandora:78_1609
filename: jcg_business_interiors_clothes_010
islandora: 78_1609
Language
English
Subject
Urban life
Stores & shops
Clothing stores
Dresses
Relation
John C. Gordon Photograph Collection

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