Skirt
ca. 1970 (made)
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Maxi skirt, full length with wraparound waist. Made up from a patchwork of brightly coloured cotton prints in a variety of florals and pictorial novelty designs, including otters, zebras, butterflies, and lions.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Printed cotton patchwork |
| Brief description | Colourful cotton patchwork skirt with multiple novelty prints designed by Suzie Zuzek for Lilly Pulitzer, c.1970 |
| Physical description | Maxi skirt, full length with wraparound waist. Made up from a patchwork of brightly coloured cotton prints in a variety of florals and pictorial novelty designs, including otters, zebras, butterflies, and lions. |
| Production type | Ready to wear |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'LILLY' (The garment designer's signature appears in multiple locations within the patterns, including in the stripes of a zebra, the whiskers of an otter, and in flower tendrils, curling vines, petals, and leaf veins. Lilly was the name of the garment designer and manufacturer, Lilly Pulitzer, rather than the textile designer, who was Suzie Zuzek. Zuzek's designs were printed by Key West Hand Print Fabrics, Pulitzer selecting a choice of Zuzek's patterns from there. As well as being central to Pulitzer clothing, Zuzek's patterns were influential across America, including in menswear in the 1960s and 1970s.
Zuzek's archive of over 2,000 pattern design drawings is now owned by ©The Original I.P. LLC.
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| Credit line | Given by Daniel Milford-Cottam |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.60-2008 |
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| Record created | September 9, 2008 |
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