Fashion Design
1963 (designed)
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Jane Elizabeth Green trained as a fashion designer at the London College of Fashion in 1957-58 and at the Royal College of Art from 1958 to 1961. In her graduating year she was given the Frederick Starke Travelling Award for the best designer of wholesale fashion, which enabled her to travel to New York and Florence. Despite the premium attached to couture design, Green always wanted to design for the high street; her clothes were put into production by the fashion designer and promoter Frederick Starke and she produced designs for the Wallis chain. She went into teaching and was a lecturer in fashion and textiles at Hornsey and Nottingham College of Art from 1963 to 1966. Thereafter she departed from her design career, undertook secretarial work and trained as a lawyer; she was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1993.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Pen and watercolour on coloured paper with a swatch of pink tweed pinned to the paper |
| Brief description | Fashion design for a pink tweed coat by Jane Elizabeth Green, pen and watercolour on paper, England, 1963 |
| Physical description | Design for a knee-length, pink, tweed coat illustrated from the front and back. The design on the left is coloured with pink watercolour. A swatch of pink tweed fabric is pinned to the bottom left of the paper. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'Wallis Shops '63' (Inscribed in pencil; bottom right) |
| Credit line | Given by Jane Elizabeth Green |
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| Summary | Jane Elizabeth Green trained as a fashion designer at the London College of Fashion in 1957-58 and at the Royal College of Art from 1958 to 1961. In her graduating year she was given the Frederick Starke Travelling Award for the best designer of wholesale fashion, which enabled her to travel to New York and Florence. Despite the premium attached to couture design, Green always wanted to design for the high street; her clothes were put into production by the fashion designer and promoter Frederick Starke and she produced designs for the Wallis chain. She went into teaching and was a lecturer in fashion and textiles at Hornsey and Nottingham College of Art from 1963 to 1966. Thereafter she departed from her design career, undertook secretarial work and trained as a lawyer; she was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1993. |
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| Accession number | E.417-2015 |
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| Record created | May 21, 2015 |
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