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…………………………March 05……. was a little bit SAFARI, and a little bit Oriental….with a little bit of sparkle thrown in!……….The Safari jacket at the upper left was made in a beautiful quality cotton sateen. The jacket had contrast color cotton sateen under the collar, the epaulets, each pocket flap, the front facing, and the turn back cuff……The colors were Olive with Lime and Khaki with Hot Pink. The bottom pockets were side entry…..a feature that became very popular…..The coordinating pant was a zip front crop pant with pockets in the same cotton sateen……The sweater was a 9 gauge cotton/acrylic 3×3 rib fully fashioned tank. It has a V neckline that was squared off at the bottom….The colors were pink, olive and black….Many times I gave Elaine speck sketches with all of the measurements I wanted to see for the first samples. All the years making sweaters for Anne Klein in Italy I was very accustomed to doing the speck sheets. This assured me that the samples would look the way I WANTED THEM…..It has been asked over the years, from those that don’t know, if I designed the clothes! I designed every piece and many times I gave speck measurement sheets for the clothes that I think needed them…I was always a very “hands on designer”….after all that was my job!…The next jacket was in a woven PLAID LINEN FABRIC!!!! It was the body of the windowpane jacket….a little longer and with patch pockets…..The under collar and turned back cuff were in solid black linen……It also came in Natural with Lime and Natural with Hot Pink……The Circle print was a print I did for Anne Klein. I worked with Gimmo Etro [the brilliant owner and creator of the ETRO company] developing many prints for AK…..this was one among many…I had it reproduced for Linea on silk CDC.. The tunic shirt had a oriental look with the black contrast bands, and the wide vivid color contrast borders. It came in Olive and Parchment with Lime borders , and Black with Parchment and Hot Pink borders……..next to that is a marvelous ribbed wide V-neck, 3/4 sleeve sweater…..It was a 9 gauge sweater with a 3×3 rib in a linen yarn so the sweater had depth as you can see in the photos of the knit swatches. It came in Khaki, Olive and a Peachy Pink, all beautiful in the linen yarn.The sweaters were embroidered with CUPPED IRIDESCENT TONAL SEQUINS…..The sequins had a hole at the edge so when they were sewn on they didn’t lay flat, but sort of danced around catching the light…………..It was a fun group with fun items.