Friday, March 30, 2012

Nylon and Bri-Nylon Evening Dress Shirts



Title     Menswear Association of Britain
Collection     London College of Fashion: The Woolmark Company
Date     1965
Description     Two easy-to-wash dress shirts.
Left - vertical pleats, made in nylon with a Velcro grip fastening, giving the impression of a fly-front. With it is worn a black rayon satin and gold brocade tie and cummerbund.
Price -£3. 10s
Right - Bri-Nylon shirt with a front panel of horizontal stripes. It has a fly-front button fastening
Price -90/-
Subject     menswear, shirt
Material     Nylon, Bri-nylon
Rights     London College of Fashion/The Woolmark Company

Source | VADS - The online resource for Visual Arts

1 comment:

  1. Wow I love those, especially the horizontal stripes I've never seen one like that before.
    The rayon brocade tie and cummerbund sound nice too.

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