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Women modeling fashions 1951-1952: Light Carnegie blue" suit from Hattie Carnegie's fall and winter 1951-52 collection" – Antique Print

Women modeling fashions 1951-1952: Light Carnegie blue" suit from Hattie Carnegie's fall and winter 1951-52 collection", ca.1951 — historic photograph
Women modeling fashions 1951-1952: Light Carnegie blue" suit from Hattie Carnegie's fall and winter 1951-52 collection", ca.1951. Historic photograph from the Family Life collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Women modeling fashions 1951-1952: Light Carnegie blue" suit from Hattie Carnegie's fall and winter 1951-52 collection"

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A light blue suit from Hattie Carnegie's fall and winter 1951-52 collection anchors this print, which the Library of Congress dates to about 1951. Carnegie, a New York designer who built her name on tailored suits, sportswear, and well-cut day dresses, was one of the most recognized American names in women's fashion in the 1940s and 1950s. Fashion photographs of this kind were used to show buyers, editors, and shoppers how a season's designs would look on a real figure. The caption-card details are unverified, so the exact setting and the model's identity are unknown, but the suit's cut and color still show the postwar taste for neat, practical tailoring.

Created / publishedca.1951
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI--Business; Clothing--1951-1952; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,213 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-139267

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