ready-to-wear designs, 1949-1956

Never a "buttons and bows" type, Cashin loved to create unconventional options for evening wear. This hostess skirt - a panung cut from upholstery-weight fabric designed by her friend and mentor, Dorothy Liebes, was part of her "Skirtings" line, a division of evening dress designed for her primary manufacturer, Philip Sills.

Bonnie Cashin "Skirtings" for Sills and Co., 1956.


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