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  • Some more great plaid pieces coming to the shop tomorrow, including this skirt by Jery Grinel for Western Fashions seen here in a 1948 ad. Grinel was born Jerome Gringler in Cleveland, Ohio in 1913, and his family moved to Los Angeles in the early 1930s. They ran a small variety store at the corner of Van Ness and what is now MLK Jr. Boulevard (then West Santa Barbara Blvd). Jery started his career in the late 1930s as a costume designer and by 1940 was designing women’s sportswear for both Western Fashions and Tabak of California. Grinel designed under his own name and for other local brands like Paseo Casuals, Sir James and Junior Miss of California. This skirt can be worn with the buttons in front or in back, making it a fun and versatile piece for winter. Shop link in profile 💋 // #1940sfashion #wearvintage
  • [these three sold] Why, hello there! These three beauties (and a few more) are live in my new shop! This has been a long time coming, and I’m looking forward to releasing the rest of my Holiday collection over the next few days. Check the link in my profile to shop 🎁🎉🥂 // #dorothyohara #gilbertadrian #1940sfashion
  • Holiday party goals 🙌🏻 “Current fashion—evening dress with the new high Empire waistline, plunging neckline, in Victorian garnet surah silk. By Claire McCardle [sic].” Photo of fashion illustrator Jane Turner by George Hoyningen-Huene for Ladies’ Home Journal, October 1948 // #clairemccardell #1940sfashion
  • “Bonnie Cashin is a one-woman trend in fashion. With just three collections, she’s become one of the top designers in town. The toga coat. The apron dresses. The purse pocket. The push-up sleeve that stays pushed up… Miss Cashin left Hollywood, where she designed for the films for seven years, to come to New York, but she still has an eye for the camera. Her dresses are costumes, hatted and gloved and thought out in areas of color. Her clothes always look best on the move and they take wearing. For her, the best wardrobes are, and we quote, ’75 per cent timeless, 25 per cent of the moment.’” Mademoiselle, October 1950. #1960s dress and cape set by Bonnie Cashin from @deargolden 🖤🖤🖤 // #ootd #truevintageootd #bonniecashin #1960sfashion #girlindeargolden
  • “V-line” cape by Bonnie Cashin, photographed by Mark Shaw for Mademoiselle, October 1950 // #1950sfashion #bonniecashin
  • “Cape-back jacket, narrow skirt (a wide-top look), in green worsted; cape-lining and blouse, purple worsted jersey. From Adler & Adler’s new collection of designs by Bonnie Cashin; about $135. Green hand-crocheted wool cloche, copy of Jacques Fath by Madcaps, $7.50.” Photo by George Platt Lynes for Vogue, September 15, 1949 // #bonniecashin #1940sfashion
  • It’s a grey day here in Los Angeles, which is a nice change of pace. I feel like the weather here makes it tough to really enjoy these fall and winter holidays I love so much—it still feels like summer at Halloween, and we’re just now starting to creep into fall… hence the color palette here. I just pulled all my wintry woolens out of storage, which is one of my favorite things about the slight change of seasons we get here. Newly rediscovered: nutmeg Miron woolen dress by Claire McCardell, with her chocolate brown fleece jacket. // #1950sfashion #ootd #truevintageootd #clairemccardell #thricecolored #vintagepalette
  • “New look for the jersey suit for 1955 — bright spice colours, with (not black, notice) accessories in subtle shades. Thrice-coloured, spice-coloured suit of Jasco worsted jersey knitted with an ottoman rib, the blouse and lining both of the same kumquat-coloured silk; about $110. By Claire McCardell.” Photo by John Rawlings for Vogue, February 1, 1955 // #1950sfashion #clairemccardell #vintagepalette #kumquatsilk #thricecoloured #paulmccobb
  • Yes I am wearing pajama pants to my husband’s company holiday party 🍸

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