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Showing posts with label century. Show all posts
Showing posts with label century. Show all posts
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Vintage Tapestry Fashions
When you say or hear the word 'tapestry', I'm sure a wall hanging of sorts comes to mind but tapestry fabric has been worn as clothing as far back as the middle ages in the era of castles and chivalry. Tapestry in layman's terms is an intricate loom woven textile art that has been around for centuries, even dating back as far as the 3rd century BC as Greek tapestries have been discovered and
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Designer Dish on Salvatore Ferragamo
Although he's been gone for over a half a century, Italian designer Salvatore Ferragamo will always be known for his outrageous shoe designs, as pictured here with this pair of 1938, stacked, multi color platform sandals that were actually about forty years ahead of their time being that they could have easily be mistaken for styles we've seen worn circa 1970.At the height of his career, his shoe
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