Flashback: New York City Fashion of the Past
14 photos
<p>NYC, 1960s</p>
<p>"Employees of Saks Fifth Avenue watching a fashion show promoting midi-length skirts." NYC, 1970.</p>
<p>L: Model wearing latest sweater fashion, 1949. R: "Model combing her hair as she shows off latest wide-mesh black cotton stockings w. extra pair of round garters to help prevent bagging at the knees in." NYC, 1948.</p>
<p>1958</p>
<p>"Christopher Seppala (2R) and Chris Cerf (R) at Pauline Trigere's fashion show." NYC, 1960.</p>
<p>"Egyptian sculpture dominates scene from cocktail party inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art during the annual Fashion Ball." NYC, 1969.</p>
<p>"Dress of French silk and Bianchini crepe, adapted by Emmett Joyce from design formerly available only in France and now made in the US re American designers unable to travel to occupied France testing their fashion ingenuity at home." NYC, August 1940.</p>
<p>"Model wearing rose-decked sheath topped by the fullest chiffon skirt which spreads out from a 22-inch waist to a 40-inch circumference on this gorgeous gown by Traina-Norell." NYC, October 03, 1949.</p>
<p>L: "Peggy Morris (L) of Bergdorf Goodman draping French satin re American designers unable to travel to occupied France testing their fashion ingenuity at home." NYC, August 1940. R: "Fashion designer Albert Capraro." NYC, 1975.</p>
<p>"Fashion model June Cox posing in an evening gown." NYC, 1938.</p>
<p>L: "Shawls, the newest fashion accessory. Terry cloth shawl covering shoulders during pause in tennis game." NYC, 1949. R: "Designer Valentina modelling evening dress in her one-woman fashion show." NYC, 1952.</p>