Bonnie Cashin1908-2000(career: 1925-1985)

A Presentation

ByIsela

Peralta

Early Years• Born in

FresnoSeptember 28,

1915

• Mother was Dressmaker

• Father was Photographer/Inventor

“Roxyettes”

"Mother of American Sportswear."

• Loose-Fitting• Casual Designs• “Articulate the Body”• Several Layers• Grommets • Ponchos• Built-In Purses• “Dog-Leashes”

1970-1974

Grommets

Dog-Leashes

• Fall 1964• Turquoise suede

and blue, turquoise, and green striped wool mohair

• Kept at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Built-In Purse

• 1954• Just the skirt• Black-and-white

houndstooth check wool

• Kept at Metropolitan Museum of Art(a gift from Bonnie Cashin herself)

Ponchos

''We Live as We Please”

 1960's New old stock Bonnie Cashin Jumpsuit in wool striped jersey

“Nine-Layer day”

Unusual Fabrics

• Mohair• Suede• Leather• Tweed• Jersey• Wool

Spring Items

''You've got to know when to let go''

• Women Civilian Defense Uniforms• 1937-1943 Adler&Adler• 1943 Hollywood Costumes(Claudia (1943), Laura (1944), A Tree

Grows in Brooklyn (1945), Anna and the King of Siam (1946), I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (1947), The Snake Pit (1948), and Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949))

• 1950 Bonnie Cashin Designs• 1953 Designs for Sills• 1962 Designs for Coach• 1970 “The Knittery”• 1985 Retired

At the Time…

• The End of WWII• Introduction of Dior’s “New Look”• International relations reestablished• High Fashion lives in Europe• 1950 President Harry Truman• 1953 President Dwight D. Eisenhower• 1954 Racial Segregation is unconstitutional• 1955 Rosa Park • Explorer I goes into orbit

More Grommets

SourcesWebsites• http://www.bonniecashinfoundation.org• http://

www.notablebiographies.com/supp/Supplement-Ca-Fi/Cashin-Bonnie.html

• http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/07/magazine/the-lives-they-lived-01-07-01-bonnie-cashin-b-1915-design-for-living.html?src=pm

• http://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/05/nyregion/bonnie-cashin-who-helped-introduce-sportswear-to-americans-is-dead-at-84.html?src=pm

• http://www.my-fashionbank.com/articles/article27.html

• http://www.fashionmodeldirectory.com/designers/bonnie-cashin/

• http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sportswear

The Book• Colquhoun, Keith; Wroe, Ann. Economist Book

of Obituaries. 2008, p56-57.

Images From• http://

www.bonniecashinfoundation.org/d_archive.cfm

• http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/hi_cashinbonnie.htm

• http://www.fgi.org/index.php?news=3095• http://xtabayvintage.blogspot.com search:

Bonnie Cashin• http://library.artstor.org