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Currently Reading: Vera: The Art and Life of an Icon
I was in Charlotte so I made a side trip to Anthropologie to see the new Vera Neumann book which was written by Susan Seid, the owner of The Vera Company. I was just going to look at it, as the price...
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Design Development at Vera Neumann
My latest Vera purchase, in the original box, no less! Do they look familiar? If so, you may have seen the same napkins here, but in a red and green colorway. I was really happy to spot these on...
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Vera Scarves and Signatures
As I said a few posts ago, there is so much Vera material that a collector can be very picky. I suppose I love these two so much because they run along the same theme as the linens I collect. It...
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Vera Neumann, Telling New from Old
It always saddens me to find out that the old archives of some of our most famous clothing and textiles companies just disappeared or were thrown out then a company was sold or closed operations. In...
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Vera Neumann, Woman of Many Scarves
I’ve written another guest blog for Collectors Weekly, this time on Vera Neumann. I know I’ve talked on and on about Vera until you kind and patient readers are sick of her, but what about all those...
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Will Work for Vera
Love these? So do I, and I especially cherish them because they were a gift from a new friend. Jan in Georgia found me by way of the VFG Label Resource. She had just lost her mother, and needed...
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Print Engineering – An Example from Vera
What looks to be a huge factory printing mistake is actually the beginnings of a Vera Neumann blouse. Find the two sleeves, the two back pieces and the front and you can see how this worked. Sometime...
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Little Vera Neumann Cocktail Time Book
Part of the fun of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is its fantastic book and gift store. After our visit we barely had 15 minutes to shop before closing, but as we were walking through the shop, my...
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Borrowing from Tammis Keefe
I recently had the great pleasure of spending a little time vintage shopping with Lisa Durfee who owns Five and Diamond Vintage in Hudson, New York. She was visiting her mom who lives in my area, so...
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Ad Campaign – Vera Scarf, 1955
Vera makes a big commotion in jazz… in colors from sweet and low-down to red hot! Suddenly, it seems, Vera is everywhere. You may have read about the latest Target collaboration, which is a grouping...
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Hurrah for the Red, White and Blue!
I realize the the old story about Betsy Ross and George Washington and the American flag was pretty much made up by her grandson and is probably about 95% false, but I’d still like to send a bit of...
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Help Dating Vera Scarves
One of the questions I get asked the most is how to date a Vera Neumann scarf. It’s not an exact science, but there are clues in the signature that a Vera scarf always has. Well, almost always, as...
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Vera Neumann Jollytop
If you are a newer reader, you might not have realized that I’m a big fan of the work of Vera Neumann. I’ve done multiple posts on Vera and her scarves and clothing, and just when I thought I’d said …...
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Making a Scarf Top, and Thoughts on Copying
Today I’m going to show how easy the Vera Jollytop would be to replicate, but first, a few words about copyright and fashion copying. In the United States, there is no copyright protection for fashion...
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Ad Campaign – Vera for Schumacher, 1954
How different can decorative fabrics really be? Those who know Schumacher’s know the answer. A stellar example is “Swiss Guards” by Vera, a painted silk antique gauze that sparkles with color and...
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Vera Neumann for Brighton
Saturday I was in a strange environment – a modern shopping mall. It’s not that I never go to the mall, I do, but it’s usually when I need something specific that I know can be found there. In this …...
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We Love Vera (Neumann)
Last week I showed a newer fabric that was copied from a 1960s print that can be found on vinyl accessories from the German company, KEK. It’s hard to know if these newer fabrics are complying with...
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Scarf Paradise
To my great delight, two of my favorite sellers, the scarf guys, were back at the Metrolina Collectibles Show last week. I’ve written about them before; they bought 20,000 scarves and are now selling...
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Scarf Paradise
To my great delight, two of my favorite sellers, the scarf guys, were back at the Metrolina Collectibles Show last week. I’ve written about them before; they bought 20,000 scarves and are now selling...
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Updates – The Rest of the Story
I never imagined that I’d buy a magazine called Western Horseman, but the price was cheap and there were those magic words: “Western Wear”. So I picked it up, and when I got home I began to really...
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