Category Archives: Canadian dress

Canadian Fashion Connection – Daymac Robes Ltd.

Posted on 2019-05-23 by Jonathan

Founded in Toronto as Dexter Robes Ltd. Nov. 24, 1941, the company’s name was changed to Daymac Robes Ltd. On December 14, 1944. The company closed in August 1985 but reopened in 1987, only to close again in 1997. The … Continue reading →

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Canadian Fashion Connection – Backing the Bandage Dress

Posted on 2019-05-06 by Jonathan

Hervé Peugnet was born in 1957, and after working as a hairdresser and milliner, he turned his hand to fashion. In 1981 he got the chance to work for Karl Lagerfeld at Fendi. Lagerfeld advised Peugnet to change his surname … Continue reading →

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Canadian Fashion Connection – The Style

Posted on 2019-05-03 by Jonathan

The museum recently received this rare early Canadian copy of the August 1883 edition of The Style – a 4 page flyer of dress patterns (probably from the American pattern maker Butterick) published by Mrs. E. Guthrie of St. Catharines, … Continue reading →

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Canadian Fashion Connection – Rainbow Jeans

Posted on 2019-04-11 by Jonathan

After Joe Owen finished his tour of duty in Vietnam, he was working for an American Jeans manufacturer and was in Toronto on business when he met future business partner Richard Brown. In 1975, the two were still in their … Continue reading →

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Canadian Fashion Connection – Stanfield’s

Posted on 2019-04-03 by Jonathan

In 1882, Charles Stanfield established the Truro Woollen Mills in Nova Scotia. His sons took over the business in 1896 and developed a patented process for making unshrinkable wool union suits in 1915. Stanfield’s went on to diversify its product … Continue reading →

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Canadian Fashion Connection – Guy Cramer

Posted on 2019-03-26 by Jonathan

Canadian born Guy Cramer is the C.E.O. of HyperStealth Biotechnology Corp. in Maple Ridge, British Columbia. Twenty years ago Cramer developed a system for making computer generated digital camouflage patterns. His first client was the King of Jordan. In 2003, … Continue reading →

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Canadian Fashion Connection – The Ideal Dress Company

Posted on 2019-03-21 by Jonathan

Moe Lupovich arrived in Canada as an immigrant from Romania in 1912. Unable to find jobs Moe and his brother Samuel began selling rags and saved up for a sewing machine, which enabled them to make aprons and sell them … Continue reading →

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Canadian Fashion Connection – Trans-Canada Shoes

Posted on 2019-02-20 by Jonathan

Founded in c. 1954 (the logo was registered that year), Trans-Canada Shoes was a retail chain, headquartered in Quebec, that sold Canadian-made footwear, primarily from Quebec manufacturers. The chain was mostly located in strip plazas and suburban malls. The company … Continue reading →

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Canadian Fashion Connection – The Woodward’s Jingle

Posted on 2019-02-13 by Jonathan

If you grew up in Vancouver in the 1960s and 1970s like I did, you knew this tune – the $1.49 Day jingle. I blogged about Woodward’s, the Vancouver department store that was in business from 1892 to 1992 a … Continue reading →

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Canadian Fashion Connection – Newlands

Posted on 2019-01-21 by Jonathan

Andrew Newlands was born in Scotland in 1840, and was married with two children when he immigrated with his family to Canada in the late 1860s. In the 1871 census he is recorded as working as the superintendent of a … Continue reading →

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