Credits

The Bergdorf Goodman Custom Salon sketch collection at Special Collections ranges in date from 1930 to 1969 and also includes millinery sketches from the 1930s. It also includes a scrapbook of sketches from the 1940s in addition to printed ephemera about the store and the Goodman family. More of the collection is viewable via SPARC Digital and the full collection may be seen in-person by appointment.

Special thank you and credit to Jill Hemingway, Masters of Arts. (Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice) for her guidance and thesis, "Bergdorf Goodman Custom Salon Sketches, 1950-1959."

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Hemingway, Jill. Bergdorf Goodman Custom Salon Sketches, 1950-1959. Order No. 27743182, Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, 2020. https://libproxy.fitsuny.edu:2818/docview/2379558245?accountid=27253

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