Mainbocher's Subtracted Perfection
50'S super model Sunny Harnett in Mainbocher - heathered gray and white tweed. The jacket, a heathery cashmere sweater set in tweed and bound off short at the waist - an unmistakable Mainbocher mannerism. The dress that wears the jacket is a cashmere sweater and skirt fused into one piece, perfectly shaped to the figure moving out in a light flow at the hem.
Tweed the color of a pink rose. The Jacket mounted with a faceted black broadtail collar, a fold-in broadtail scarf, the line of the jacket arrested at the point where the waistline inches in.
The Mainbocher Hemline
The dress - in the crystal gray of wool mixed with silk, cut with the greatest appearance of ease, to identify itself beautifully with the lines of the body. Everywhere quiet circumspection, scissored to curve, cling and flow in movement - until the eye strikes a fine-scale massing of embroidered vines climbing upward from the hem. Harry Winston diamond earrings.
Mainbocher's Subtracted Perfection
The Mainbocher Hemline
Harper's Bazaar December 1953
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