Bathing suit

Designer Tom Brigance American

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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.

Bathing suit, Tom Brigance (American, 1910–1990), cotton, rayon, American

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Bathing suit, Tom Brigance (American, 1910–1990), cotton, rayon, American
Bathing suit, Tom Brigance (American, 1910–1990), cotton, rayon, American

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