Documentary record connected to the editorial archive.
Name associated in the source with the “Manolita Dress,” a wool-crepe piece with jet embroidery dated 1942 and held by the Museo del Traje.
A reading of fashion in Spain from the post-war years to the 1970s as material culture: garments, accessories, photographs, fashion plates, and magazines make it possible to study both dress and the channels that made it visible.
Open storyThe exhibitions and collections cited by Spanish institutions offer a way to approach Madrid fashion from the post-war period to the 1970s without treating a single image as a complete truth. This guide proposes reading garments, accessories, photography and the press together, while distinguishing what can be stated from what must remain open.
Open storyCollections and exhibitions at the Museo del Traje and other institutions make it possible to read fashion as material culture: garments, accessories, photographs, magazines, patterns and fashion illustrations preserve traces of production, circulation and use. A tour of what these sources allow us to state—and what they do not—about Spanish fashion from the post-war years to the 1970s.
Open storyDrawing on documented Spanish exhibitions and collections, this analysis examines Madrid fashion from the post-war period to the 1970s as a material and visual source. Garments, photographs, fashion drawings, magazines and accessories can reveal changing customs, without mistaking a museum exhibition for a complete portrait of an era.
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