Thursday 5 November 2009

1960s: Divine Christian Dior photos, textiles & clothes

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Left - reversible, welt-stitched coat, camel's hair and violet wool. Right - Lightly fitted plum coloured wool velour coat.

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Warm weight with smooth finish in a tailored-to-perfection beige Dior coat.

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Dior suit in soft twill weave of wool, in alternate black and beige stripes and worn with black mousseline blouse.

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Classic looking black/white tweed suit by Dior keynotes white-with-black-satin blouse.

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Yellow/beige tweed in a long-jacketed suit.

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Olive green/maroon tweed mixture in a wool suit.

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Two wool coats by Dior take stripes away from the run-of-the-mill. Coat at right has dark mink collar and cuffs.

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From Christian Dior, a double-breasted evening coat suggesting the 'great coat' of an earlier era. Dior's model was created of blue wool velour.

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Evening cape from Dior in an apricot shade of smooth-woven fabric.

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Sleek coat from Dior, for all-day-into-evening wear, is black wool velour.

All words and pictures from American Fabrics magazine, Fall-Winter, 1967.

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