Claire McCardell Collection. Please click Claire McCardell Exhibit to return to the exhibit page that contains thumbnail images of all the items in this collection.

After studying at Parsons and living in Paris, she returned to America to design functional, affordable clothes for the American woman. Her simple use of natural fabrics, such as cotton, …

With the help of long-time friend and classmate, Mildred Orrick, McCardell completed her final collection from her hospital bed. She checked out of the hospital in order to make the …

The Claire McCardell Collection offers materials of interest to researchers of women’s history, fashion design, American fashion of the 1930s-1950s, and notable women of Maryland.

She is now considered the mother of American sportswear, combining style and functional wearability. She designed ski and golf togs, as well as office and wedding dresses—creating …

The collection includes Claire McCardell's sketches and illustrations as a student, as well as sketches, newspaper and magazines clippings, correspondence, advertisements, invitations to …

“Claire McCardell Plays No Fashion Favorites—Sponsors Silhouette Variance, Unique Colors and Unusual Fabrics,” Newark Sunday Times, February 11, 1951, Claire McCardell Collection, MS …

New-York Historical's collection includes this uniform, worn by Adikes from 1942 to 1945. A blue wool suit purchased at Saks Fifth Avenue, it consists of a skirt and a single-breasted coat …

The New School Archives's Claire McCardell fashion sketches collection (KA.0082) consists of almost thirty years of McCardell's fashion sketches, primarily for Townley Frocks.

Her designs have been featured in exhibits at several major museums in the decades since, and she influenced many contemporary designers, including Donna Karan, Isaac Mizrahi, and …