Jumpsuit
Designer Bonnie Cashin American
Manufacturer Philip Sills & Co. American
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These are long-johns. A jersey jumpsuit, as boldly striped as the outfit of a convict on a chain gang, features every device of designer sportswear. Snaps replace what might otherwise be the buttons denounced by anthropologist Bernard Rudofsky and others as archaic; the waist is tied closed and could well have been accompanied by a worker's leather skirt or apron; and even the drop seat of the union suit is honored in this apparel that thinks of every convenience. Cashin prized the vernacular and rendered it as style.
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