Daily Swatch: Fabrics From Horrockses Fashions
We’ll wrap up the tribute to Horrockses Fashions today with three green dresses featured in the book. The signature Horrockses’ look was a full-skirted dress with simple but interesting bodices in fabulous cotton prints.
Image credits: Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, by Norwyn Ltd. (top); collection of Christine Boydell, photograph by Nigel Essex (middle); Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston (bottom).
Book review of Horrockses Fashions: Off-the-Peg Style in the ’40s and ’50s by Christine Boydell here.
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These just make me want to sew!
That pie print fabric has to be one of my most favourite fabrics ever, now. OMG.
I could look at pictures of vintage dresses for hours. These are wonderful. Thanks!
I love the green dresses! Especially the first and 3rd. I can just see my grandma in one of these–she would have been in her mid 30s and pretty as a picture!
I love these dresses, specially the first one. It is so 50′s and Pop…
Good source for inspiration!
I would LOVE to have these in my wardrobe. All green and all fabulous.