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The Stole Wrap signified Glamour… then and now

12/28/2013

Stoles began to be fashioned from every material type with exotic names ranging from Azurene to Silverblu, all of which added to their attraction. In these years of anticipation of the boom, bodices became the target for all designers’ creative talents, and the designs were carried out in every material that happened to be the rage from one season to the other. This expression of elegance in luxurious outerwear shaped to the body became subject for a thousand variations in its meticulous details.

Stoles, Boleros, Jackets, Capes and Cloaks were, from the 1950's into the 1960's, essential to the elegant woman’s wardrobe. The Stole had made its definitive entrance into women’s fashion as the par excellence elegant female status symbol alongside Haute Couture.

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A Rose is a Rose by any name ~ Aeolian, Cerulean or Tourmaline Stoles

12/21/2013

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The year 1948 had introduced the “Little Cape” in which the contrasting little tails imitated the fastening, short Capes with peplums, along with floor-length Capes sporting little Volant sleeves or large cuffs. Rivella’s Stole Cape was almost as big as a Cloak. Pellegrini invented a sort of allusion to a double collar with all the fullness to the back. Revillon brightened up the Stole with cloth inserts, as well as inserting folds of muslin into the fur.

Boleros, Jackets, Capes and Cloaks were produced in every possible variation and color, and lived for 12 months of the year. Aeolian, Tourmaline, Royal Pastel and Autumn Haze were the taupe-coloured, light beige and natural brown mutations of the EMBA mink, and chosen for the majority of the designs. Little Jackets and Boleros could be short and square, fastening at the edge, could have fullness at the back or front, could do away with the collar or make it huge.

In 1954, Dior presented a silver fox Muff in an attempt to bring back this classic accessory. The Fur Boa also had its adherents.

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The small embrace "Bolero" Stole Wrap became a lasting fashion statement

12/14/2013

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It was only a short step from the Stole to the Bolero and its derivatives, and the 50’s were proof to this fact. Many of these Boleros and little jackets hardly came down to the waistline. The design-house Revillon made a shell-shaped Capelet Bolero in Royal Pastel mink, while other designers used the famous Autumn Haze EMBA mink. Maximilian studied the Stole Bolero in Royal Pastel where the shoulders and neck remained free as a frame for a pretty face.

The designer Fath launched a blousy Bolero in beaver. Rossini and Porro were making them with an oriental flair. Many were in mink, others in Persian lamb or with “crater” collars which moved their image from a sporting to an elegant look. Jole Veneziani went beyond to a short jacket Bolero of zebra, with fringe that would later be called a T-shirt shape.

There were Vest-Jackets and little Shawls with fur puffs at the ends, and the ultra-famous Stoles consisting of four pelts that intertwined forming a knot. Many women became able to afford an Evening Stole.

The stimulating minimum effect of the small Stole for the average woman became a fashion statement that was due to last.

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"Small Is Beautiful" in the legend of the Stole Wrap

12/7/2013

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Even for those who do not delight in fashion, the idea of the Fifties evokes the Fur Stole. It was not by chance that, in 1950 itself, the advertisements of the American firms of Ben Mendel and Bergdorf Goodman were based on the Stole, which, in those days, had few rivals in the fur trade as regards to quantity. American artisans, looking for wider markets, made every attempt to vary and update the classic Stole in every possible way in an attempt to make it affordable to all women.

There was the small, cropped model, which followed the Empire period line, which was often fastened with two bows beneath the bust, and another on one shoulder and grew wider on the other side, or which knotted behind into a butterfly effect.

Others were double collared or built with multi-tiered rows of natural fur. Collars were wide and often swelled into shawls. They were square, flat, stole-shaped or molded in the form of high-knotted scarves with lines that followed those of the dressmaker.

This rectangle of fur, which constitutes a luxury embrace, was subject to a thousand variations.

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The Stole Wrap signified Glamour… then and now

A Rose is a Rose by any name ~ Aeolian, Cerulean or Tourmaline Stoles

The small embrace "Bolero" Stole Wrap became a lasting fashion statement

"Small Is Beautiful" in the legend of the Stole Wrap

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The Stole Wrap signified Glamour… then and now

A Rose is a Rose by any name ~ Aeolian, Cerulean or Tourmaline Stoles

The small embrace "Bolero" Stole Wrap became a lasting fashion statement

"Small Is Beautiful" in the legend of the Stole Wrap

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