1920s Wedding Gowns || Lucile Ltd

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Look at these gorgeous sketches (art in their own right) from the 1920s! Housed in the Department of Special Collections at FIT, these are scans of original 20s wedding gown sketches, housed in the the FIT archives ‘Lucile, Lady Duff Gordon’ collection.

Roaring Twenties Wedding Gown1930s Wedding Gown

See more sketches and read about Lucile Duff Gordon at Pins and Needles (love the name), a blog written by FIT Master’s students in the History, Theory and Museum Practices Program.

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  1. Those sketches are very nice and I really love them.

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