Subject: knitwear / Subject: dresses (garments)--1950-1960 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Handwritten on drawing: WE LIVE AS WE PLEASE / I live in New York or California or Paris -- My suitcase is always packed – and the world is just around the corner. I live on an income – and I’ve learned to know a value. I pay a lot for my clothes – but then they are me for years and years – I never never “the” dress of the season – I find what I like at Macy’s
Date:: circa 1955
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Cashin (Bonnie) Collection of Fashion, Theater and Film Costume Design, 1913-2000

Date:: circa 1952-1954
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Cashin (Bonnie) Collection of Fashion, Theater and Film Costume Design, 1913-2000

Description:: The model is wearing a ribbed knit dress with a hood, a long lether coat and knit golves. The dress has a thin leather belt at the waist. the coat has buttons down the front just past the waist and it has two deep pockets.
Date:: 1953-1956
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Cashin (Bonnie) Collection of Fashion, Theater and Film Costume Design, 1913-2000

Description:: Clipping from the New York Times, 11/30/1952: "The new wit of the knit -- our own Bonnie Cashin collection [...]" with drawings of five models wearing knit dress ensembles.
Date:: 30-Nov-52
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Cashin (Bonnie) Collection of Fashion, Theater and Film Costume Design, 1913-2000

Description:: Marilyn Hoffman was a staff correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor. Ruth Mugglebee was the food and fashion editor of the Boston Record-American Sunday Advertiser. Berta Mohr was a fashion columnist who wrote the syndicated column titled "Mohr about fashion."
Date:: 1952-1953
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Cashin (Bonnie) Collection of Fashion, Theater and Film Costume Design, 1913-2000

Description:: Clipping 2, Dallas, Texas, Times-Herald, 4/1953: "Knitted wardrobe is coronation-bound / By Alice Hughes / Written Exclusively for The Times Herald" with two photographs of models wearing Bonnie Cashin travel knitwear recommended for travel to events surrounding the coronation of queen Elizabeth II, and one photograph of Alice Hughes.
Date:: 1952-1953
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Cashin (Bonnie) Collection of Fashion, Theater and Film Costume Design, 1913-2000

Description:: Clipping 1: "Rainy day fashions / This season's rainwear is versatile, can be worn for all casual occasion / By Virginia Lee" with a photograph of a model wearing a raincoat with a ribbon tie at the neckline and full pockets gathered at the top and another photograph of a model wearing a full raincoat. .
Date:: 1952
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Cashin (Bonnie) Collection of Fashion, Theater and Film Costume Design, 1913-2000

Description:: Clipping 2: "This is the look...here and further south! / Knit costumes...tinged with the magic expectation of travel. [...] Smartwear-Irving Saks" with a drawing of five models wearing Bonnie Cashin knitwear dress ensembles.
Date:: 1952
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Cashin (Bonnie) Collection of Fashion, Theater and Film Costume Design, 1913-2000

Description:: Female model wearing a calf-length knit dress, gloves, and hat.
Date:: 1950-1951
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Eiger, Conrad
Collection:: Cashin (Bonnie) Collection of Fashion, Theater and Film Costume Design, 1913-2000

Description:: Model wearing a rib-knit dress with matching tied knit belt, below-the-elbow length sleeves and low turtle neck collar, complimented by knit gloves and a leopard patterned hat.
Date:: between 1953-1961
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Cashin (Bonnie) Collection of Fashion, Theater and Film Costume Design, 1913-2000

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