a practical dreamer, 1908-1937

1925-1937
The Fanchon and Marco dance troupe, Cashin's employer, was contracted to provide all on-stage entertainment in conjunction with Fox films. In 1934, the producers asked her to move with them to work at New York's Roxy Theater. Heralded as the youngest designer to hit Broadway, she designed three sets of costumes weekly for the twenty-four member Roxyette danceline, the precursors and rivals to the Rockettes. Cashin also designed costumes for featured performers, one of whom described her job as "making me beautiful, in clouds of tulle that made me look like I was from another world."

Cashin designs for Fanchon and Marco, 1925-1937
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