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In the early 1940s, American designer Emily Wilkens went beyond her previous experience in childrens wear to create costumes for two teenage characters in a Broadway play. Recognizing the growing importance of the teenager in American culture, she soon launched Emily Wilkens Young Originals, the first designer label specializing in upscale, fashionable clothing for teenage girls. Within the space of a few years, Wilkens skyrocketed from obscurity to national recognition, yet even today many fashion insiders would not recognize her name. Fashion historian Rebecca Jumper Matheson explores intertwining stories of female agency through the history of Wilkens and her teenage clientele. Wilkens retained both artistic and business control over her label in an era when most American ready-to-wear designers were anonymous employees of manufacturers. Wilkens parleyed her relative youth into a big-sister image which, like her dresses themselves, allowed her to mediate between the concerns of her teenage clients and their parents. Contrary to popular wisdom, Wilkenss designs declared that even a teenager could be fashionable. In doing so, Wilkens laid the foundation for the seismic shift that would occur later in the twentieth century, when youth became the fashionable ideal. Young Originals traces Wilkenss career from fashion illustrator in the 1930s to spa and beauty expert in the 1980s, emphasizing her consistent ideal of healthy, youthful beauty.

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Costume Society of America series

Phyllis A. Specht,
Series Editor


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Daniel Delis Hill

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translated by D. A. Saguto

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Rebecca Jumper Matheson


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Texas Tech University Press


Copyright 2015 by Rebecca JumperMatheson

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced in anyform or by any means, including electronic storage and retrieval systems,except by explicit prior written permission of the publisher. Brief passagesexcerpted for review and critical purposes are excepted.

This book istypeset in Minion Pro. The paper used in this book meets the minimumrequirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (R1997).

Designed by KaseyMcBeath

Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Matheson, Rebecca Jumper, 1975-

You ng Originals : Emily Wilkens and the teen sophisticate /Reb ecca Jump er Matheson.

pages cm. (Costume society of America series)

Includesbibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-89672-924-7 (paperback) ISBN 978-0-89672-925-4(e-book) 1. Wilkens , Emily. 2. Women fashiondesignersUnited StatesBiogra phy. 3. FashiondesignersUnited StatesBiography. 4. Fashion illustratorsUnit ed StatesBiography. 5. Teenage girlsClothingUnitedStatesHistory20th century. 6. Fashion merchandisingUnited Stat esHistory20th century. 7. Fash ionUnitedStatesHistory20th century. 8. Beauty, PersonalSocial aspects UnitedStatesHistory20th century. I. Title.

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Texas Tech University Press
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"Fashion andCostume Sketch Collection. Emily Wilkens sketch 041-06, S pring 1946" 1946. Brooklyn Museum Libraries. Fashion and Costume SketchCollection. Special Collections.


Emily Wilkens The Early Years Junior Miss and the Rise ofthe Teenager - photo 4


Emily Wilkens: The Early Years


Junior Miss and the Rise ofthe Teenager


Miss Emily Wilkens, Entrepreneur


Habits of Beauty


Designing Emily Wilkens Young Originals


Modern and Historicizing: Reassuring the Public


Fashion Agency: Marketing to Teens


Postwar


A New You


Emily Wilkens asa baby

Rose Drey Wilkens in her wedding dress Morris Wilkens EmilyWilkens1945 - photo 5 Rose Drey Wilkens in her wedding dress

Morris Wilkens

EmilyWilkens1945

Weaver HighSchool

Emily Wilkens'scollege yearbook picture

Saks Fifth Avenueadvertisement

Four-year oldNancy Drury and Cornelia Otis Skinner

Junior Miss playbill cover

Patricia Peardon,John Cushman, Billy Redfield,
Lenore Lonergan in Junior Miss

Sketches ofbeachwear by designers including
Emily Wilkens and Tina Leser

L-85 regulationbefore and after

Design p atent for a windowpane check dress

Spring/Summer1945 "Flutterbye" ensemble

Emily Wilkens atthe Gotham Hosiery
Company hosiery fashion show

Milliken Woolensadvertisement

Design patent fora "young black" dress with
removable jerkin

Design patent for the "teacup dress"

Design patent fora smocked dress

Design patent fora pinafore-style sundress

The ideal bodysketched by Erica Perl Merkling

Emily Wilkens's1953 Patterns of the Times design

Design patent fora butterfly motif dress

Design patent for a rainy-day motif dress

Design patent fora long-sleeved dress with shoulder wings

"NewDesigner for the Teens" advertisement

Design patent fora dress with removable sweater-sleeves

Dresses withmatching parasols

Trousers by EmilyWilkens

Emily Wilke ns Young Originals, advertisement

Lenore Lonerganas Miriam Wilkins in Dear Ruth

"Heart-thrill"day dress from the 1945 Coty Awards fashion show

Evening dressfrom the Brooklyn Museum collection

Dress with eyelettrim from the Spring/Summer 1945 collection

Wilkens at theMuseum of Costume Art

Evening dress ofpink-and-white striped cotton with bustle bow in back

Yellow Sunmererayon dress with black velvet ribbon

"Dreamdress" from the 1945 Coty Awards fashion show

Beach ensemble ina Seminole-inspired p attern

Portrait of NewYork State Supreme Court Justice Irving Lawrence Levey

Emily Wilkenswith Morris Wilkens on the day she married Irving Levey

Emily Wilkens'sFall 1950 Patterns of the Times design

Emily Wilkens forBonwit Tellerevening dress

Emil y Wilkens for Bonwit Tellerevening dress with embroideredapron

Bonwit Telleradvertisement, Fall 1953

Emily Wilkens,early 1960s

Emily Wilkensteaching at FIT in the 1960s

Emily Wilkenswith Dr. Ana Aslan of the Bucharest Geriatrics Institute

Emily Wilk ens as a columnist for King Features Syndicate
in the late 1960s

Emily Wilkenswith husband Justin Kingson at a 1970s event

COLOR PLATES,FOLLOWING PAGE

Sketch of daydress with Emily Wilkens Young Originals features

Sketch of daytimesuit

An evening gow n in a fabric inspired by nineteenth-century ribbon

Detail of 1940sEmily Wilkens Young Originals label

Detail of 1950sEmily Wilkens label

"Portrait ofa young girl in a postwar fabric"

Illustration of adress with smocked bodice

Tee Matthewsrepresents t he Emily Wilkens ideal of beauty

Rustred-and-black striped taffeta afternoon suit

Skirt ofafternoon suit, showing "built-up" waistline

Two-piece"young black" evening dress with chiffon overskirt

Detail of"young black" evening dress bodice and waistband

Dress with"Quaker collar"

Front view ofRuby Giragosian's "best dress"

Detail of collaron "best dress"

Detail of peplumon "best dress"

Reverse view of"best dress"

Navy suit withbarrel-shape skirt and matching hat, bag, and shoes

Knickerbocker orbull fighter pant ensemble

Navy cocktaildress with bertha collar

Navy crepeevening dress with sequin trim

Navy crepeevening dress with sequin trim, reverse

Detail of navycrepe evening dress with sequin trim

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