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Clipping 4: "4. Soft wool Orlon-and-nylon knitted dress from Joseph Guttman, designed by Bonnie Cashin [...] $36.75" With a drawing of a model wearing the dress. Clipping 8: "Travel Wardrobe Ready For Trip To Coronation / By Elizabeth Toomey / New York, March 19 (UP -- Now an American designer has come up with an entire coronation wardrobe. It outfits any American woman for the coronation, she says, except for one occasion -- meeting the queen. 'And you aren't going to hat a chance to meet the queen anyway,' the fashion commentator told the women at ta unique round table held this week at the English speaking union [...] The travel coat was gray flannel on one side and black faille on the other [...]." Eight clippings of newspaper advertisements for clothing designed by Bonnie Cashin featuring knitwear in general, and knitwear and other garments suitable to wear at events celebrating the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. With 33 clippings with the names of newspapers. Clipping 3, New York Report: "Rose and Rebozo Vie as Man-Bait / By Alice Hughes / Written Exclusively for The Times Herald / New York, March 28 -- Want to make yourself look sweet and feminine? Or suave and sophisticated? [...]" With a photograph of a model wearing a rebozo designed by Cashin. Clipping 6: "Knit Wardrobe Suggested for Coronation Trip / At a 'Coronation Preview' yesterday afternoon held at the English Speaking Union a suggested Coronation wardrobe for Americans going to London in June was presented as designed by Bonnie Cashin, with commentary by Alice Hughes. Built around knitted separates, the wardrobe conforms to air travel weight specifications and easily transforms from daytime to evening. Mainstay of he wardrobe is a gray flannel loose coat that reverses to black satin for dress-up. A beige knitted costume composed of sleeveless blouse, slim skirt and matching bolero is in nylon-Orlon knit for non-muss and easy upkeep. All of the wardrobe colors are 'quiet' in gray, beige, black and white with bright scarfs to give accent. Four cashmere sweaters in these colors add variety to the travel clothes and go with the knitted skirts [...]" Clipping 5, Women's Wear, New York City, 4/2/1953: Drawing of a model wearing a V-neck sweater over a swim suit, "1. Striped yoke middy ... a novelty pullover designed for Joseph Guttman, By Bonnie Cashin [...]" Alice Hughes was a newspaper columnist and foreign correspondent. Clipping 7: Light Clothes Shown For Coronation Trip / A capsule wardrobe for an American woman attending the Coronation this June was included in a 'Coronation Clinic' held yesterday at the Englich Speaking Union, 19 East Fifty-fourth Street. Designed by Bonnie Cashin, the wardrobe was composed of separates [...] The fashions will be available at Lord & tTaylor by the edn of May. Feeling that the best wardrobe for an American abroad is the most inconspicuous one, Miss Cashin chose four neutral shades" black, gray, beige and white. Color notes were added by scarves and jewwlry. A major item was the around-the-clock reversible coat made of charcoal flannel and lined with black satin. Draped around the coat was an outsized black knit stole that could serve many purposes. [...]" Clipping 2, Women's Wear, New York City, 3/30/1953: "Scholastic Awards Judging April 1 / National judging of the annual Scholastic Awards competition, sponsored by Scholastic magazine, [...] Judges will be Doris Anderson, dressmaking, authority, Bonnie Cashin, designer, and Ardenia Chapman, dean of the College of Hme Economics, Drexel Institute of Technology [...]" Clipping 1: "Knitted Stole-Jacket ... called 'chiller-killer' from Joseph Guttman Bros. Designed by Bonnie Cashin [...]" with a drawing of a model wearing the stole.
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