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
Below-the-knee-length sleeveless dress with extended shoulders, a front buttoned placket and a thin self-fabric tied belt cinching the waist. Worn with gloves and a broach at the neckline. The model stands in front of an animal hide.
Two female models. Model on the left is seated and wearing a dress, a cloche hat, a pearl necklace, and a light jacket made of thin fabric. Model on the right is standing and wearing a short-sleeved dress, a wide brimmed hat, a pearl necklace, and gloves, and she is holding a wicker hatbox.
Red, white and black sketch of a woman wearing a red two-piece dress and a matching red hat with a low crown and a wide down-turned brim, and carrying a red patterned tote bag draped over her forearm.
Female model wearing calf-length sleeve-less dress with belt along with a sheer short-sleeved cape. Also wearing gloves as well as netting on her head.
Advertisement for Forstmann Woolen Company in the form of a color illustration of a model wearing a woolen dress against a backdrop of 2 panels of woolen fabric.
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.
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.
Female model wearing checkered cape (or cloak?)--part of which is fitted and tied around her waist. Underneath, she is wearing a long-sleeved calf-length dress. She is also wearing gloves.
Handwritten on drawing: I’m a cold blooded Californian – I wear at home a lightweight glenn plaid wool lined in silk – it’s just the right amount of dressing up –
Female model wearing a striped dress with matching gloves and a solid-colored wide-brimmed hat. Her striped belt appears to be holding a corsage of sorts.
Female model wearing a calf-length two-layered dress with the sheer top layer covering the solid bottom layer. She is holding an opened parasol that is adorned with several artificial flowers.
Model is wearing a solid color sleeveless dress (with spaghetti straps). Over the dress she wears a patterned overskirt, which opens at the front and back to show the dress underneath.
Female model wearing a calf-length sleeve-less dress with a sheer short-sleeved coat. A corsage is at her waist, which is either held there by the model or attached to the belt on the dress.
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."
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.
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. .
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.
Model in foreground is wearing a black, semi-sheer skirt, a white long-sleeved shirt and a black hat with a wide brim. She is carrying a bouquet of roses. The skirt has horizontal striping along the hemline. In the background, another model is wearing a dress with the same skirt as the other model and a halter top.
Handwritten on drawing: Pilot pieces all black --- 1. orlon jersey pleated skirt -- 2. pleated evening top -- 3. classic cashmere sweater -- 4. long sleeved-scoop neck evening top -- 5. short sleeve cashmere -- 6. jersey halter / will take my fold-flat evening stole made of Dorothy Lieber handwoven fabric in bk. withe & silver / 1951
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.
Slim suede dress with a snap-closure placket, cinched with a narrow matching belt, and with contrasting collar and sleeve in a slightly darker-colored knit fabric, edged in suede.