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Fashion History Mystery #60: What's Up, Lilli Ann?

Dressed: The History of Fashion
Dressed: The History of Fashion
Episode • Aug 17, 2023 • 34m

Today's we answer several listeners' requests for an episode on the American womenswear brand Lilli Ann. One of the great runaway success stories of American 20th century fashion, the backstory of the brand takes some twists and turns from its early years in San Francisco's Chinatown, to Lilli Ann's founder's fisticuffs with New York mobsters and his surprising relationship with the French textile industry which garnered Adolph Schuman the prestigious Legion d'Honneur award.



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