Bathing suit

Designer Tom Brigance American

1952

Not on view

Though Brigance retired in the 1970s, one of his swimwear manufacturers Gabriel Colasante reported at Brigance's death in 1990 that a Brigance-designed skirted swimsuit remained one of his best-sellers: "It sells no matter what print I do it in." A Lord & Taylor designer from 1939, when his first beachwear collection so entranced the Duchess of Windsor that she bought six outfits, through 1949, Brigance excelled as a designer of the endless, expansive American summer of leisure and recreation.

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Title: Bathing suit
Designer: Tom Brigance (American, 1910–1990)
Date: 1952
Culture: American
Medium: cotton, rayon
Credit Line: Gift of Thomas F. Brigance of Sportsmaker, 1952
Object Number: C.I.X.52.7.4
Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute

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