The collection includes Claire McCardell's sketches and illustrations as a student, as well as sketches, newspaper and magazines clippings, correspondence, advertisements, invitations to fashion-related events and original photographs from her career as a fashion designer.
Sans titreThis folder contains pencil fashion illustrations of mostly day dresses. Some have hand written notes and different versions of details sketches. Most unsigned and all undated.
Sans titreThis folder contains pencil fashion illustrations, mostly of day dresses and knits. Also in the folder are hand written notes of styles and fabrics. Unsigned and undated.
Sans titreThis folder contains Xeroxed programs and invitations to fashion-related events in New York City.
Sans titreThis folder contains photographs of McCardell's designs, several of them have relevant newspaper clippings attached. Also in the folder are pictures of McCardell receiving the Mademoiselle Merit Award, 1943.
Sans titreOriginal Photographs
Sans titreThis folder contains pencil fashion illustrations of mostly day dresses and knits, some have detailed hand written notes of style numbers, construction and fabric information. Also in the folder are some pencil sketches of architectural and figure studies. Unsigned and undated.
Sans titrePrograms and events
Sans titreThis folder contains one picture of McCardell at a dinner party.
Sans titreThis folder contains photographs of McCardell herself both privately and in public events. Also in the folders are photographs of Lord & Taylor windows from 1947.
Sans titreThis folder contains original programs and invitations to fashion-related events in New York City.
Sans titreThis folder contains advertisements for retailers such as B. Altman & Co., Bonwit Teller and Lord & Taylor, as well as for fabric manufacturers. It includes examples of McCardell's swimwear, day and evening wear.
Sans titreThis folder contains original press releases, including these from Townely Frocks and the Fashion League.
Sans titreThis folder contains original press releases of radio broadcasts, and from the Fashion League and the New York Dress Institute.
Sans titreOriginal sketches and illustrations
Sans titreThis folder contains advertisements, including a Lord &Taylor ad congratulating McCardell on her appearance on the cover of Vogue. In the folder there is also an ad for fabric with Raoul Dufy's prints from a series of a line of fabrics featuring works of artists like Picasso and Chagall. McCardell designed a resort ensemble with Dufy's print.
Sans titrePress releases
Sans titreThis folder includes hand written notes which seems to be describing garment styles, fabrics and knits.
Sans titreThis folder contains Xeroxed personal and corporate correspondence, where appropriate original newspaper clippings are attached.
Sans titreThis folder contains advertisements for retailers such as Niemen-Marcus,, Bonwit Teller and Lord & Taylor, as well as for fabric and yarn manufacturers. It includes an advertisement for "Futuramic Oldsmobile" for which McCardell designed a summer ensemble to reflect the design aesthetic of the car and the life style that goes with it.
Sans titrePersonal and corporate correspondence
Sans titreThis folder contains advertisements for retailers such as Lord & Taylor and Julius Garfinckel & Co. as well as for fabric manufacturers and Sanka coffee. It includes many examples of McCardell's sun dresses, stripped dresses and jersey dresses.
Sans titreThis folder contains advertisements of sunglasses and gloves lines McCardell designed, as well as ads for retailers such as Bonwit teller and Niemen-Marcus. In the folder there is also an ad for Chrysler featuring McCardell herself along side designers Clare Potter and Lilly Dache', among others.
Sans titreThis folder contains Xeroxed press releases. Including examples Lord & Taylor, the New York Dress Institute and several radio broadcasts.
Sans titreThis folder contains hand written and typed correspondence addressed to McCardell.
Sans titreThis folder contains personal and corporate correspondence, where appropriate original newspaper clippings are attached. Also in the folder an original Western Union telegram from 1946 congratulating her for winning the Fashion Trades Poll as best sportswear designer of the year.
Sans titreThis folder contains clippings from newspapers and magazines. It includes a coverage of a wide range of McCardell's designs: dresses for afternoon and garden parties, beachwear, tennis outfits, pleated dresses, plaid dress, 'Grecian' style dresses and several examples of her famous 'Pop-over' dress.
Sans titreThis folder contains clippings from newspapers and magazines, including the notable Bazaar cover featuring her bateu neck square red shirt with black polka dots in diminishing sizes. It also includes clipping with a plaid dress now at the collection at MFIT.
Sans titreThis folder contains Xeroxed advertisements from leading department stores like Lord & Taylor, Niemen-Marcus and Bonwit Teller, as well as many lesser known retailers. It includes an ad for McCardell's children's wear designs for Saks Fifth Avenue.
Sans titreThis folder contains advertisements from Townely Frocks and Hattie Carnegie, as well as retailers such as Russeks, Best & co., and Niemen-Marcus.
Sans titreThis folder contains advertisements from Townely Frocks as well as department stores such as Lord&Taylor and Niemen-Marcus. It includes examples of McCardell's denim designs and 'Pop-over' dresses.
Sans titreThis folder contains advertisements for retailers such as B. Altman & Co., Russeks and Lord & Taylor, as well as for fabric manufacturers such as Miron and Bates.
Sans titreThis folder contains clippings from newspapers and magazines. It includes examples of McCardell's use of double top stitching as a design element in day dresses, as well as examples of her bathing suits, safari suits and sailing outfits, Also in the folder are clippings relating to her raincoat line for 'Main Street fashions'.
Sans titreAdvertisements published in magazines and newspapers, including department stores' ads featuring McCardell's designs and of lines she specifically created for retailers across the country. It also includes ads in which her name is used to indorse fabric manufacturers and lines of accessories and undergarments.
Sans titreThis folder contains Xeroxed advertisements from leading department stores like Lord & Taylor, Niemen-Marcus and Bonwit Teller, as well as many lesser known retailers. The variety of retailers who sold McCardell's designs shows the extent of her popularity.
Sans titreThis folder contains clippings from newspapers and magazines. It includes examples of a wide range of McCardell's designs: plaid, stripped and polka dots dresses; coats; day dresses; bathing suits; jersey dresses; Also in the folder are examples for her use of double top stitching as a design element.
Sans titreThis folder contains Xeroxed advertisements from leading department stores like Lord & Taylor, Niemen-Marcus and Bonwit Teller, as well as many lesser known retailers. The variety of retailers who sold McCardell's designs shows the extent of her popularity.
Sans titreThis folder contains Xeroxed advertisements of retailers such as B.Altman & Co, Marshall Field & Company, Filene's, The Bloom Store and Lord & Taylor.
Sans titreThis folder contains advertisements from retailers across the country who sold McCardell's designs. Also in the folder is an advertisement for her line of Utility fashion for Lord & Taylor, as well as a booklet of a Denim line of Townely Frocks she designed.
Sans titreThis folder contains clippings from newspapers and magazines. It includes many examples of the casual sportswear style for which McCardell is known: swimwear and resort fashion, printed dresses and 'apron' dresses, to name a few.
Sans titreThis folder contains clippings from newspapers and magazines. It includes examples of a wide range of McCardell's designs: floral summer dresses, plaid day dresses, coats, evening dresses, beachwear and even children's clothes.
Sans titreThis folder contains clippings from local and national publications and includes the January cover of Glamour magazine. Also in this folder are many examples of McCardell's swimwear.
Sans titreThis folder contains clippings from local and national publications. Its content shows the wide range of McCardell's designs, from day dresses, to coats, beachwear and even ski outfits.
Sans titreIn this folder contains examples of McCardell's day and evening dresses, resort and swimwear and several examples of her empire dinner dresses. Also in the folder are clippings relating to McCardell's rayon collection of mix and match beach outfits.
Sans titreThis folder contains clippings from local and national publications and includes the cover of Life Magazine from July 9th. 1945. Also in the folder are examples of McCardell's swimwear and resort fashion and her tennis dresses design.
Sans titreThis folder contains clippings from newspapers and magazines. It includes examples of McCardell's printed day dresses, knits, evening dresses, maternity dresses and several clippings relating to her denim collection.
Sans titreThis folder contains clippings from newspapers and magazines. It includes examples of McCardell's 'Grecian' style jersey dresses, coats, resort and swimwear.
Sans titreThis folder contains clippings from local and national publications including Vogue and Bazaar. It includes McCardell's design of wool bathing suits, weekend and outdoors outfits. Also in the folder is a report on her winning the "Winnie" bronze trophy from the American Fashion Critics for her four pieces beach wardrobe with double topstitched details, an element that with time became one of her signatures.
Sans titreThis folder contains clippings from local and national publications. It includes the cover of Life magazine from August 28, 1944, as well as examples from McCardell's designs of day dresses, outdoors outfits and plaid dresses.
Sans titreThis folder contains clippings, including illustrated examples of McCardell's Portuguese plaids collection, and a wide range of her active wear designs: ski outfits, sailing suit, swimwear and skating outfits.
Sans titreThis folder contains clippings from newspapers and magazines. It includes examples of McCardell's 'Grecian' style dresses, plaids coats and resort wear.
Sans titreThis folder contains Xeroxed clippings, some relating to the contest "Maid of Cotton" of which McCardell was a judge that year. Also in the folder are many examples of swimwear and resort designs. It is interesting to note this folder also contains fashion report from Paris and several clippings referring to Dior's New Look, highlighting the discussion in the American market and Media with the comeback of Paris couture after the war.
Sans titreThis folder contains Xeroxed clippings, including McCardell's bathing suit featured on the cover of Life Magazine. Also in the folder are clipping regarding McCardell's men's wear design for an event related to the Costume Institute exhibition "Adam in the Looking Glass" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and several clippings relating to her collection of pleated dresses.
Sans titreThe Xeroxed clippings in this folder show the wide range of McCardell's designs at the time, including swimwear, knits, day dresses, evening gowns and even Children's wear.
Sans titreThis folder contains Xeroxed clippings, including Claire McCardell's appearance on the cover of Time magazine in 1955.
Sans titreThis folder contains clippings from national and local newspapers and magazines. It includes examples from her stint at Hattie Carnegie, as well as reports on her work, design aesthetic and methods and her background. Also in this folder is a cover of Mademoiselle from September1940.
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