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    Surat

    Surat is a soft fabric, in silk or rayon, originating in Surat (India). Its characteristics are twill weave and diagonal furrow.

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    Spectator

    American two-tone shoe: black-and-white or brown-and-white. Demonstrating extreme elegance in terms of color, this shoe was originally part of the sporting wardrobe. It is also known as a correspondent shoe. They were first worn in the 1920s and stayed in…

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    Sacchetti Enrico

    Sacchetti Enrico (1877-1967). Italian illustrator and poster designer. For Lidel and French women’s magazines, he recorded the fashions of the 1920s and 1930s in a non-calligraphic style and with an ability to capture the essence of a design. He worked…

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    Rivella is a Turin fur shop famous in the 50s and 60s

    Exhibition for the international clothing market, organized by Ente Italiano della Moda and various associations of dressmakers and fashion manufacturers. It was operative in Turin from 1954 until the mid-1960s. Its winning formula is to bring together and compare not…