Fashion Display Piece entitled “Tweed Dress: Autumn 1953”

Fashion Display Piece entitled “Tweed Dress: Autumn 1953”

£80.00

The presentation opens out to display a pencil, pastel, and collage pattern with fabric samples. Strong and durable. The entire pattern, rendered in considerable detail and with equally considerable style and panache, is a one-sixth representation of the cutting patterns required to make a very typically 1950’s tapered tweed dress with a gathered waist, elaborate buttoned collar yoke and, wonder of wonders, pockets! The finished cutting patterns are executed in brown paper captioned in pencil and glued down onto the cardboard. Probably intended as a fashion or design school piece showing step-by-step proof of concept. It is not only technically impressive, but also manages to be extremely cool at the same time. The card cover has a painted representation of the finished dress, and is initialed S.M.M. or some variation thereof, in a small monogram to the bottom left corner. Handsome!

A small folding display of a 1950s fashion design. Homemade paper-covered card with four-panel folding portfolio attached with cloth hinges.

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