Exhibit - Donald Brooks
Jean Guilder
From Model to Editor
Dorothy Shaver was then the president [of Lord & Taylor] and very interested in all the college girls. She had meetings with us every week to find out what we were interested in and what merchandise was needed.

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Text: Kathleen Maggio
Photos: Timothy Maggio
[Townley] had previously employed Claire McCardell who had just died. Donald was the heir apparent for this company and he had started turning out dresses the likes of which were absolutely incredible.

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All the girls just absolutely fell in love with the Donald Brooks' clothes. He was then working for a company called Darbury.

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He then went on to work in the theater, which of course, was not for the average consumer. He did special clothes for celebrities but for the consumer, his stay at Townley was all too brief. What he exemplified seems to have been lost in today's world in the area of design.

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