Keywords: couture
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Historic Clothing Collection - Early Twentieth Century
"Dating into the mid 1890s her couture quality wine velvet and cream figured silk double gigot sleeved dinner or opera dress, and her openwork cream…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1950-1960 - Page 4 of 4
"While pirating French couture designs was an old practice, in the 1950s some U.S. manufacturers contracted and made arrangements with French…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - The Maine Historical Society Historic Dress Collection - Page 2 of 2
"A group of turn of the twentieth century couture caliber gowns from Lewiston; a 1930s ‘Delphic’ gown and others by Jessie Franklin Turner; and a…"
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1960-1970 - Page 1 of 3
"… Society Expensive establishment old style couture or similar high style-type clothing still retained appeal, but only to a shrinking, older…"
