Museum of art offers Spring fashion show Young designer releases knitted wear for Summer Costume design jury Cloths of 1953 in Granada Knitwear: fashion favorite for travel
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Clipping 3: "Museum of art offers Spring fashion show / By Cynthia Cabot / [...] At the 3 P.M. performance, Bonnie Cashin, popular New York designer, will be guest speaker. ...]" Clipping 5: photograph of a costume design jury (L to R): Ardenia Chapman, College of Home Economics at Drexel Institute; Bonnie Cashman, fashion designer; and Doris Anderson, fashion coordinator; Kit Mason of McCall's Patterns, sponsor of costume design. Eleni Sakes Epstein was the fashion editor of the Washington Star (Washington, D.C.). Cynthia Cabot was the fashion editor at the Philadelphia Enquirer. Eugenia Luker was the fashion editor at the Star-Telegram in Fort Worth. Clipping 2: "Cloths of 1953 in Granada / Acetate, opposite, in a new, cool, textured surface; a hardy traveler, the foe of wrinkles [...] Orlon and nylon, lef above, a knit that keeps its shape [...] By Bonnie Cashin in Du Pont fibers [...] Neiman Marcus, Mules by La Valle." with a photograph of a model wearing a knot dress walking outside of a building in Granada, Spain. Clipping 1: Knitwear: "Fashion Favorite for Travel / By Eleni Sakes / Fashion Editor / You don't have to worry abour wrinkled clothes on a vacation if you pack with woolknit fashions [...] / The long cardigan--designed by Bonnie Cashin for Joseph Guttman, this bicycling costume features a cardigan sweater of wool yarn in turquoise and white / For the col of the evening--even summer evenings can become chilly, so Bonnie Cashin offers this ribbed knit, crescent-shaped shrug wrap for beach, home or roof-top dining or dancing." with photographs of 2 models wearing the cardigan and the shrug. Clipping 4, Fort. Worth, Texas, Morning Star-Telegram, 5/3/1953: "Young designer releases knitted wear for Summer / By Eugenia Luker" with two photobraphs of models wearing a knit two-piece dress and a knit shrug.
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