Vintage Miscellany – October 8, 2017

It still isn’t fallish here in the Southern Appalachians, but how could I resist this fashionable pair?

And now for a bit of vintage news…

• •   There were many things that led to women wearing pants, and among them is the influence of Oscar and Constance Wilde.
  •    Levi Strauss explains the red Tab.
  •   The humiliation of trying to resell clothing.
  •    The Yves Saint Laurent museum has opened in his former haute couture atelier in Paris.
  •    The most interesting man in the world is not in a beer commercial.
  •    Meanwhile in Canada, there is a muskrat hat controversy.  thanks to Christina for the link
  •    Items: Is Fashion Modern, at MOMA
  •   TWEED: From Hill to Hill, a Rural Tradition 
  •   French designer Hervé Léger, aka Hervé L. Leroux, has died.