Should I buy these 1940s Fashion Designer sketches?

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  1. benbenny007

    benbenny007 I buy rubbish, and sell antiques

    Should I buy these 1940s Fashion Designer sketches?

    Never heard of her. Than again I'm not at all into fashion.

    They are asking £100 GBP for them?

    Worth investing or not?

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  2. CheersDears

    CheersDears Well-Known Member

    I wouldn't buy them ... nope.
     
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  3. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    I'm wary of that attribution. Never heard of her, can't find any references. I'd gamble twenty but no more.
     
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  4. benbenny007

    benbenny007 I buy rubbish, and sell antiques

    my thoughts
     
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  6. benbenny007

    benbenny007 I buy rubbish, and sell antiques

    Same here. I also had no hits.
    no go than.
     
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    Can you show close up of signature.
     
  8. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    Think the date's wrong; those don't appear to be fashion sketches from 1949. Unless they can be connected to a well-known designer, a movie or actress (and even then,) think £100 is wishful.

    Debora
     
  9. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    What would be really helpful is if you could post the wording next to each sketch.

    Debora
     
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  11. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

  12. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    That short dress is fine for Britain in the late 40s. A utility shape at the time when we still had serious fabric rationing and controls on what could be made. I've contemporaneous photos of my mama wearing similar. The one with the fur cape is OK, too.
     
  13. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    May have been worn in the late 40s but not a post-World War II silhouette. Seriously out of fashion with Dior's introduction of the New Look in 1947. The dress with fur cape appears to be a bias cut evening gown from the 1930s.

    Debora
     
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  14. benbenny007

    benbenny007 I buy rubbish, and sell antiques

    What a lot of knowledge here. Thx all. I can save some money now.
     
  15. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    Bit different here from the US. The Board of Trade prohibited fashions with excess fabric such as New Look and it was considered unpatriotic, too. The wide skirt thing didn't really get traction in mass fashion until after 1950. Ma was an actress,so lucky enough to have designers make stuff for her. I've a photo of her at my godfather's wedding in about 1950 wearing a very similar shape to that day dress, and it was a fairly new dress. If you google on our sewing patterns at the time you'll find plenty of examples. Or magazines for that matter.
     
  16. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    Thought this interesting. Hardy Amies response to Dior. 1947.

    Debora

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  17. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    Yup. That was expensive high fashion and is much toned down from New Look. It was also unavailable to your everyday woman in the street, or even wealthy ones - clothes rationing didn't end here till 1949. This, with all that fabric would have been a vast amount of coupons, perhaps a couple of years worth. More "standard" designs were very pared down, like that day dress. If you've not come across it, google on utility clothing, it's fascinating. (As an aside, my ma had a dance rehearsal set made from dusters!)

    People like Hardy Amies were making for export. We were desperate for foreign currency, being nigh on bankrupt as a nation. So many goods which ended up across the pond were simply not ever sold here.

    As another aside, I found a US scholarly reference which said women's trousers weren't popular till the 40s. This is not true of here. ;)
     
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