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Cashin's ready-to-wear design illustrations for Sills and Co., titled "Summer Somewhere." b081_f02-06

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Handwritten essay titled: Summer Somewhere / A business based on the fact that seasonal boundaries are disappearing – A fine chance to start a whole new concept of servicing consumer needs today – What’s good for the east in deep freeze isn’t necessarily so somewhere else – Resort period good place to start – All kinds of clothes for 60 [degrees] and up – play – work – travel – after six – things to dance in --- Cottons – linens – silks – and wonderful odd fabrics from foreign lands (And of course summer can be under a fur coat too!) / [signed:] Summer Somewhere by Bonnie Cashin
Date:
1960
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Cashin (Bonnie) Collection of Fashion, Theater and Film Costume Design, 1913-2000
Cashin's ready-to-wear design illustrations for Sills and Co., titled "Summer Somewhere." b081_f02-06

Cashin's ready-to-wear design illustrations for Sills and Co., titled "Salute to Ernestine Carter." b087_f04-01

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Handwritten comment with drawing of woman wearing suede trousers with 3 rows of fringe: [title:] Salute to Ernestine Carter / Mrs. Ernestine Carter, women’s page editor of the London Sunday Times, wrote this back in 1958 –“What I was looking for in New York were clothes so absolutely American in concept that they could spring from no other source. Then one day I saw a pair of fringed suede trousers. That designer, I decided was for me. So, I met Bonnie Cashin.”Thank you Thank you Miss Carter!We’ve grown a lot since then – and this year we think it might be time to revive fringed leather – right out of our own Daniel Boone heritage—
Date:
circa 1964
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Cashin (Bonnie) Collection of Fashion, Theater and Film Costume Design, 1913-2000
Cashin's ready-to-wear design illustrations for Sills and Co., titled "Salute to Ernestine Carter." b087_f04-01

Cashin's essay titled "Leather for Evening" [1954]

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Test: Leather for evening --- Leather, usually thought of for country wear is being bought by smart women as an exciting new look for nite --- the polish of the soft goatskins, kidskins & such lend a good background for jewels --- and somehow the animal quality of the leather plus an expanse of pretty neck makes for a very electric look. Bonnie Cashin / 1954
Date:
1954
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Cashin (Bonnie) Collection of Fashion, Theater and Film Costume Design, 1913-2000
Cashin's essay titled "Leather for Evening" [1954]

Cashin's ready-to-wear design illustrations for Sills and Co., titled "Summer Somewhere." b081_f02-02

Description:
Handwritten essay: A new business idea for a changing market – / a flexible kind of business big enuf for economic production – small enuf that ideas will not be lost – the small order of today may be the ford of tomorrow – / Identity – a certain look – a certain viewpoint – for a certain way of life which happens to fit today – / Bonnie Cashin – who thinks best under a tree – or on the go – who enjoys dreaming – planning – designing – fabric hunts – color conjuring – promotion ideas – who thinks most these things are done most creatively off Seventh Ave –
Date:
1960
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Cashin (Bonnie) Collection of Fashion, Theater and Film Costume Design, 1913-2000
Cashin's ready-to-wear design illustrations for Sills and Co., titled "Summer Somewhere." b081_f02-02

Cashin's ready-to-wear design illustrations for Sills and Co., titled "Summer Somewhere." b081_f02-01

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Drawing of woman holding banner reading “Wanted” with handwritten essay titled : “Wanted. A creative business man – who sees the point on 7th Ave – who will plan the mechanics – and get it there – (ie : the consumer) – besides getting a kick out of doing something uncommon in the market place --- Once found -- then concise planning – a long range plan – a good team – and all Bonnie Cashin wants to do is THINK of ideas – And – who knows? This maybe the spark the whole market needs and maybe make small buckets of money for everyone –“
Date:
1960
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Cashin (Bonnie) Collection of Fashion, Theater and Film Costume Design, 1913-2000
Cashin's ready-to-wear design illustrations for Sills and Co., titled "Summer Somewhere." b081_f02-01

Cashin's ready-to-wear design illustrations for Sills and Co., titled "Omar the Tentmaker." b082_f05-01

Description:
Handwritten note: Omar the Tentmaker / knew the magic of stripes / he striped everything –- / his tent – his mattress –- /his prayer rug –- his chairs / (such as they were –- he really / loved just great big pillows) / we take a lessen from his book /we like this stripedy look— Bonnie Cashin
Date:
circa 1962
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Cashin (Bonnie) Collection of Fashion, Theater and Film Costume Design, 1913-2000
Cashin's ready-to-wear design illustrations for Sills and Co., titled "Omar the Tentmaker." b082_f05-01

Cashin's illustrations of at-home wear designed for Lord and Taylor. f01-02

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Text: Fireside Manners -- Clothes for fireside evenings -- their makeup is planned -- their object is flattery -- their effect is relaxing -- designed for those special hours at home, after sundown, when good living begins -- and a girl can be a heroine in her own home -- [signed]Bonnie Cashin
Date:
1951-1953
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Cashin (Bonnie) Collection of Fashion, Theater and Film Costume Design, 1913-2000
Cashin's illustrations of at-home wear designed for Lord and Taylor. f01-02

Cashin's illustrations of garments including the "Turnabout." f06-01

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
Cashin's illustrations of garments including the "Turnabout." f06-01

Cashin's essays titled "Country Giving" and "Tree Trippers."

Description:
Text: [musical notes] " --- I think that I shal never see --- a poem as lovely as a tree ---" Tree Toppers / Designed for grown-up scouts, distaff side -- who would rather hike a mountain - swing a branch - catch a view - and sleep with the sweet smell of pine in the air than anything else --- They're the ones whose road maps are penciled to the Grand Canyon or Yosemite or Mt. Rainer or an Apalachian Spring - and other places like that --- A capsule collection in canvas, leather traced, in two new colors roughly this ---> [red rectangle] and this ---> [ochre rectangle] --- nice safety colors in a forest --- Bonnie Cashin
Date:
undated 1960s
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Cashin (Bonnie) Collection of Fashion, Theater and Film Costume Design, 1913-2000
Cashin's essays titled "Country Giving" and "Tree Trippers."

Cashin's illustrations of knit ensembles with leather for Guttman Bros and Sills and Co. f09-01

Description:
Handwritten essay: “Go together – Knits & Leathers—Two of the top fashions this year are knitted things and leather things – Besides being very American in manner, they go together like the proverbial apple pie and cheese – That’s because they’re naturals – the hide and the wool from same –This is a way to look this season in the texture of knit and the polish of leather — Bonnie Cashin”
Date:
circa 1953
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Cashin (Bonnie) Collection of Fashion, Theater and Film Costume Design, 1913-2000
Cashin's illustrations of knit ensembles with leather for Guttman Bros and Sills and Co. f09-01