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ORDER THE BOOK – Seven Sisters Style: The All-American Preppy Look

Seven Sisters Style: The All-American Preppy Look by Rebecca C. Tuite

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🇬🇧☎️🇬🇧. 📸 Norman Parkinson, 1963. Model: Melanie Hampshire

🇬🇧🇺🇸 “British inwardly... American outwardly... Rodex totally.” 🇺🇸🇬🇧 An advertisement for British Rodex coats that appeared in American Vogue in 1959 took care to note that, “History goes into the making of your coat when you wear a Rodex... Your Rodex is formed to fit you by Britons, who take the trouble to make every detail perfect. Stitching, basting, felling... even the buttonholes show their pride in their work.” 📸 Rodex advertisement seen in US Vogue, October 15, 1959, p.41.

❤️ London Style ❤️ 📸 Norman Parkinson, British Vogue, 1960.

🥊 Fashion Knockout: The Final Round 🥊 An evening coat to end all evening coats: Baroque black velvet, laden with embroidery, trimmed with Russian sable (by Sarmi, in Forster Willi velvet). Add a veiled headdress by Emme and two satin-swathed boxers to complete ringside look! 📸 Derujinsky, at Stillman’s Gym in NYC, in Harper’s Bazaar, October 1959.

Will take any excuse to celebrate these two fools! #NationalSiblingsDay #TuiteSisters 💖

🥊 A Fashion Knockout 🥊 I love the juxtaposition of this sumptuous, bright-white satin Pauline Trigère dress against the dark and smoky grit of the boxing ring (especially the way it highlights the coordinating satin stripe on the boxer’s shorts!). 📸 Derujinsky, at Stillman’s Gym in NYC, in Harper’s Bazaar, October 1959 (my own copy).

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