Vintagiality
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Hi all,
I have a cashmere cardigan that I believe to be from the 50s. I would appreciate if you could help me identify the fur on the collar. Also, I can't seem to find much about the Connaught label as most everything out there is about the Crown Prince of Sweden (maybe some connection with the royal crown logo).
Thank you
Victoria
Update: It appears that Connaught is somehow connected to Bernhard Altmann because I found a label that had both but I couldn't find any mention of Connaught either in the entry here about him or on Wikipedia.
Down the rabbit hole of research I went and I discovered a rather fascinating tidbit; a movie connection to Woman in Gold. Helen Mirren plays a Jewish American immigrant Maria Altmann, sister-in-law to Bernhard Altmann, the textile entrepreneur. In 1938, he was forced to sign over his Viennese knitwear business to the Nazis in return for Fritz's (Maria's husband) release from the Dachau Concentration Camp.
According this site https://www.selvedge.org/blogs/selvedge/woman-in-gold shortly after she arrived in Los Angeles, Bernhard mailed her a cashmere sweater – accompanied with the note: "See what you can do with this." Maria took the sweater to a Department Store in Beverly Hills, and shortly thereafter attracted a multitude of buyers in both California and across the United States for Bernhard Altmann's cashmere sweaters. Maria became the face of cashmere in California and eventually started her own clothing business with her own clients.
Now of course I would love to see the movie.
I have a cashmere cardigan that I believe to be from the 50s. I would appreciate if you could help me identify the fur on the collar. Also, I can't seem to find much about the Connaught label as most everything out there is about the Crown Prince of Sweden (maybe some connection with the royal crown logo).
Thank you
Victoria
Update: It appears that Connaught is somehow connected to Bernhard Altmann because I found a label that had both but I couldn't find any mention of Connaught either in the entry here about him or on Wikipedia.
Down the rabbit hole of research I went and I discovered a rather fascinating tidbit; a movie connection to Woman in Gold. Helen Mirren plays a Jewish American immigrant Maria Altmann, sister-in-law to Bernhard Altmann, the textile entrepreneur. In 1938, he was forced to sign over his Viennese knitwear business to the Nazis in return for Fritz's (Maria's husband) release from the Dachau Concentration Camp.
According this site https://www.selvedge.org/blogs/selvedge/woman-in-gold shortly after she arrived in Los Angeles, Bernhard mailed her a cashmere sweater – accompanied with the note: "See what you can do with this." Maria took the sweater to a Department Store in Beverly Hills, and shortly thereafter attracted a multitude of buyers in both California and across the United States for Bernhard Altmann's cashmere sweaters. Maria became the face of cashmere in California and eventually started her own clothing business with her own clients.
Now of course I would love to see the movie.
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