COLLEEN CORBY

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May 1964. ‘Coty excites white with a fresh new look for spring.’

Corby, 1966, Simplicity Catalog

Colleen Corby

The sixties were nothing if not colorful. I guess it was a reaction to the drab colors of previous decades - or maybe it was some development in textile dyeing process. Who knows. I'm certainly too lazy to find out. Anyway, for this post I've got a mixed bag of girls in miniskirts sporting stockings, hose, and tights in every color of the rainbow. It was trendy during the psychedelic sixties, but by 1970 this fad was dead on arrival. For a brief magical time both the miniskirt and loud…

If Twiggy represented the face of UK fashion in the 1960s then it can be argued that her opposite number across the pond was a certain Colleen Corby who was an early candidate as an American supermodel as far back as the early 1960s. Corby started her modelling career in 1958 at the tender age of [&hellip

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