Redfern (couture)
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Haute couture
Haute couture refers to the creation of exclusive custom-fitted clothing. Haute couture is made to order for a specific customer, and it is usually made from high-quality, expensive fabric and sewn with extreme attention to detail and finished by the most experienced and capable seamstresses,...
house with branches in Paris and the United States which operated between 1881 and 1929. It was founded in London in 1855 by John Redfern. His designs were often featured in La Gazette du Bon Ton
La Gazette du Bon Ton
La Gazette du Bon Ton was a leading French fashion magazine that was published from November 1912 to 1925. Founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, the magazine covered the latest developments in fashion, lifestyle, and beauty.-Elitism and arts focus:...
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In 1879 he created a dress in jersey
Jersey (clothing)
A jersey is an item of knitted clothing, traditionally in wool or cotton, with sleeves, worn as a pullover, as it does not open at the front, unlike a cardigan. It is usually close-fitting and machine knitted in contrast to a guernsey that is more often hand knit with a thicker yarn...
, worn by Lillie Langtry
Lillie Langtry
Lillie Langtry , usually spelled Lily Langtry when she was in the U.S., born Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, was a British actress born on the island of Jersey...
, named the 'Jersey lily' (from her birthplace in Jersey
Jersey
Jersey, officially the Bailiwick of Jersey is a British Crown Dependency off the coast of Normandy, France. As well as the island of Jersey itself, the bailiwick includes two groups of small islands that are no longer permanently inhabited, the Minquiers and Écréhous, and the Pierres de Lecq and...
. John Redfern was appointed dress maker to the Queen in 1888.
Redfern designed the first women's uniform for the Red Cross in 1916.
External links
Redfern evening dress in Staten Island Historical Society Online Collections DatabaseFurther reading
- North, Susan (2008) "John Redfern and Sons, 1847 to 1892" Costume 42: pp. 145–68
- North, Susan (2009) "Redfern Limited, 1892 to 1940" Costume 43: pp. 85–108