..:^^**^Spring Suits^**^^:..

The season of Spring has arrived in Australia (although it is still typically rainy!). Vintage editorials claimed that a suit is de rigeur for Spring, a must-have for daytime, for travel, and for wearing in the country. Let's repeat fashion history and embrace the spring suit once more!

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Vintage Suit History at 1962 Retro Fashion History
Lilli Ann 1940s Suit at Pintuck Style

Evelyn Tripp wearing Larry Aldrich, 1952

Dovima wearing Kraeler suit, 1952

Models wearing spring suits by Hattie Carnegie, 1951

Mollie Parnis strapless flannel dress & matching tailored jacket

Model wearing spring suit by Larry Aldrich




THE HATTIE CARNEGIE INFLUENCE

Hattie Carnegie, born Henrietta Kanengeiser in Vienna in 1889, was one of the premier dress designers of the 1930s. Not only did she make her mark through her elegant designs, she also trained a generation of fashion designers that shaped American style for decades. Carnegie started her career as a milliner.
Her best known works were her “little Carnegie suits.” Carnegie’s suits typified a style that was neither youthful nor matronly, but very feminine and very neat—the “Carnegie Look.” Carnegie claimed in 1951 that “there is really no ‘Carnegie Look,’ there is only the ‘you’ look. My clothes are built to show off the woman who wears them". Hattie Carnegie died in 1965.

Model wearing spring suit by Hattie Carnegie, circa 1951 NY

Designer Hattie Carnegie with her chief fitter working on a spring suit

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