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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Peggy Hamilton standing on the wheel of an airplane and modeling an aviation costume created especially for her by Greer with a matching jacket, pants, cap and gloves and worn with goggles and knee-high boots. This photograph appears in Peggy Hamilton’s Los Angeles Times feature "Fashions," June 17, 1928, pg. H3. Howard Greer (1896-1974) was a fashion and costume designer for theater and film who worked in Paris from the end of WWI up to 1921, and then in the United States. In 1927 he left Paramount and started his own couture house and continued to work in fashion and costume design until his retirement in 1962. Text from negative sleeve: Switzer. Juliette Compton. Paramount Studio. Jan-1932. Peggy Hamilton Fashion Study. [date is not correct and does not portray actress Juliette Compton; this is not the correct sleeve for this negative] Handwritten on edge of negative: A 3241-1
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