Set
Designer
Claire McCardell
(1905 - 1958)
1946
Cotton
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Adrian McCardell
Object number72.61.88
Claire McCardell’s coverall style echoes the functional garments worn by factory workers in the war industries. This post-war fashionable version is fitted and feminized, but retains McCardell’s knack for practicality. According to fashion historians Kohle Yohannan and Nancy Nolf: “McCardell’s clothes never wavered . . . either at the height of wartime restrictions or upon the return of plenty
DescriptionT-Square coverall with separate helmet style hood, in pale grey cotton topstitched in black; collarless, straight sleeves; belt inset at front, tapered leg with elastic stirrups, CF black buttonsCollections
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