Genre: Fashion design drawings and essays - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Handwriting on design states: “Turnabout” – “I can wear my double skirt on either side – and I have it in all sorts of colors – low key & high key. It has a nice silky bulky blousy look tucked into a cinched waist – or it serves as a jacket worn over sheath or slacks. Sometimes it’s fun to cross & pin the ends in back for a little middle look. It could be called a chameleon – it has that many moods—“
Date:: 1952
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Cashin (Bonnie) Collection of Fashion, Theater and Film Costume Design, 1913-2000

Description:: Drawing of woman's gown.
Date:: circa 1950-1952
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Cashin (Bonnie) Collection of Fashion, Theater and Film Costume Design, 1913-2000

Description:: Handwritten on drawing: IF --- If our earth continues rocketing toward complete polution, we may, in order to survive each have to wear a sort of life-support suit. This personal environmental habitat which would never be doffed except in specially built large self-support way-stations. The exterior of this body container would be of a material, thin, transparent * weightless with combat properties which I am sure Nasa can develop. Underneath is a 2nd skin garment in which the individual might be able to express some personal aesthetic. Obviously the fashion market as we know it would becom extinct -- and perhaps it would end the constant repetition of the 20s 30s etc. It might also help the population problem --- Bonnie Cashin
Date:: 1966
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Cashin (Bonnie) Collection of Fashion, Theater and Film Costume Design, 1913-2000

Browse items