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- Perfect header today as we go into the 4th!! - Kay in Chgo July 2, 2023, 8:22 am
- Here’s the story we heard about that gown and the couture show >> - Kelly Red July 2, 2023, 10:19 am
- Thanks for sharing, I love hearing the history as well. It does make the fashion more special - sarah in SC July 2, 2023, 6:59 pm
- wonderful story and makes this fabulous dress even more endearing
- Ori July 2, 2023, 11:57 am - Thank you for sharing this....I am alway intrigued with the history behind a fashion. - SuzanneMcD July 2, 2023, 10:51 am
- Thanks for sharing, I love hearing the history as well. It does make the fashion more special - sarah in SC July 2, 2023, 6:59 pm
- Here’s the story we heard about that gown and the couture show >> - Kelly Red July 2, 2023, 10:19 am
Posted by Kelly Red
on July 2, 2023, 10:19 am, in reply to "Perfect header today as we go into the 4th!! "
| Madame Gris Allier was closed by the Germans early in the war, she was forced to move to Germany to keep designing. Her first show there she made the majority of the fashions in the colors of the French flag: red, white and blue. On several of the gowns she embroidered a teeny tiny yellow Star of David hidden in the seams or waist. She also refused to make gowns for Nazi officers wives, using the “I’m too busy” excuse. She survived the war but her business partner and possible life partner sold her French house out from under her while she was away. |
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