I will scan the image of the hat later tonight and post it so you can see.
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Yes, Poiret was conscripted, but heck every man with four sound limbs
between 18 and 50 was drafted for something during WWI. Don't know if
his designs were used, but if I remember correctly, his official
capacity was to redesign French soldiers uniforms.
If I recall, most designers didn't close
Cindy,
Thank you for mentioning Vogue. I have a bound volume of Vogue July-Sept.
1919. I forgot I had it. I pulled it out and I had bookmarked all the
designers from then. There are several. I will record them tonight. I am
documenting the designers, illustrators, fashion photographers,
I did see that Chanel movie. But I'm not sure of that whole Poiret and
Chanel meeting at a beach resort during the war. I'll have to check if
the Chanel biog I recall reading that Chanel was one of the designers
that didn't remain in Paris during the war, has ever made it back to my
local public
