Subject: African American models / Genre: fashion illustrations (layout features) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Sketch of an African American woman wearing a brown/mauve dress. Her hair is covered by a red snood or hairnet.
Date:: Early 1970s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Cashin (Bonnie) Collection of Fashion, Theater and Film Costume Design, 1913-2000

Description:: Sketch of an African American woman wearing a black pantsuit, with a light-colored toga or mantle draped over it. She is also wearing a turban and ankle boots. Signed by Bonnie Cashin.
Date:: Early 1970s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Cashin (Bonnie) Collection of Fashion, Theater and Film Costume Design, 1913-2000

Description:: Illustration text: "Put yourself in a harmony of colors. Start with a beautifully tailored shirt, maybe in indigo. Pair it with another intense blue like peacock. Swath the hips with a great bias of colorful plaid in wildly contrasting colors. Pick up one of the colors in a striped turban which you tie yourself. Add a shoulder pouch & boots, & swing into Fall."
Date:: Early 1970s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Cashin (Bonnie) Collection of Fashion, Theater and Film Costume Design, 1913-2000

Browse items