This month’s cover features a working illustration and fabric swatch for a striped challis dress designed by Pauline Trigère in 1980. French born fashion designer, Trigère, emigrated to the United States before World War II where she started her own fashion label and quickly found success in the United States’ growing ready-to-wear market. For the next 50 years, her work would be sold in department stores and boutiques across the country and worn by many of America’s most prestigious women.

This image is part of the Pauline Trigere Papers at the Kent State University Libraries. Trigère donated her papers to university, and the collection is made up of 120 cubic feet of material dating from 1942 to 1994. Learning more at https://oaks.kent.edu/trigere.