Dorothy will be celebrating her 92nd birthday in August. When she was in her 30′s and 40′s, she was a buyer for high end women’s clothing at Marchall Field’s on State Street in Chicago.. She still holds strong opinions about the course of fashion history, trashing most of the fashion developments from the hippies on [...]
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Fashion at Marshall Field’s in the 50′s
Posted in celebration, Chic Chicago, From Photos, gift, memory, tagged chic Chicago, elegant, fashion, Fath, Marshall Field on July 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Chic Chicago: The Worth Evening Gown
Posted in Chic Chicago, Promotion, tagged chic Chicago, Chicago History Museum, fashion, Victorian, Worth on March 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
At the Chic Chicago exhibit the third most popular dress after the Infanta (see post 1.29.11) was the evening gown by Charles Fredrick Worth, 1884, made in France. Worth was an Englishman who set up shop in Paris in 1846, at the age of 21. He dressed the aristocracy including the French empress Eugenie and [...]
Chic Chicago–the “Infanta” evening gown
Posted in Chic Chicago, Promotion, tagged Charles James, Infanta on January 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
After the red dress (see posts for 12.4.10 and 12.31.10) the second most requested dress was the “Infanta” evening gown by Charles James (1906-1978), designed 1952. It had been donated to the Chicago History Museum by Mrs. Nancy Epstein. The bodice , which extended over the hips in a front and back v-shape, was made, [...]
Chic Chicago: The Man’s Choice
Posted in Chic Chicago, Promotion, tagged chic Chicago, men, red dress on December 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Chic Chicago attracted primarily women. But it was also an occasion for a few males. I drew exactly ten men in dresses during those ten months. Six of these chose the red dress. Now, the red dress was a slinky thing in silk crepe and you could wear it like a major expression of your [...]
Chic Chicago: The Red Dress
Posted in Chic Chicago, tagged red dress on December 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Chic Chicago ran from September 2008 to June 2009. In those ten months I probably drew three hundred to four hundred visitors, every one of them wearing one of the gowns in the exhibit. By far, the most popular dress was the red evening gown from 1938, a design attributed to the French designer Marcelle [...]
“Chic Chicago,” part 1
Posted in Best work, Chic Chicago, Promotion, Therapy, tagged chic Chicago, fashion, gowns, ladies who lunch on December 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Chicago History Museum ran a hugely popular exhibit called “Chic Chicago” for about a year starting in September 2008. I was the lucky caricaturist. What!! A caricaturist for such an elegant affair!? Yes, moi. I do elegant when elegant I see. “Chic Chicago” was an exhibit of sixty-four historic gowns from the 1850’s to [...]
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