"the cashin look"

Believing that clothing should be as beautiful on the inside as on the exterior, and wanting her clothes, such as this poncho, to be "flung" around the body at the wearer's discretion, Cashin favored expensive tweed and double-faced wool jersey as linings. Often told by the Sills' workers that it was impossible to make clothes according to her meticulous specifications, her mother instructed the 7th Avenue garmentos on the construction of her daughter's designs.
Bonnie Cashin for Sills and Co., 1961.


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