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2022.35
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Sportive Male by Paul Gold Lamè Shirt
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- undated [1960-1969] (Creation)
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(1959-unknown)
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Paul's Male Boutique was opened in 1959 at No. 47 Carnaby Street in London's Soho by Jewish designers Nathan and Susi Spiegal selling the label Sportive Male by Paul. The husband-and-wife team took advantage of their proximity to the skilled tailors and department stores of the West End enabling them to manufacture small orders. This meant they could rapidly respond to the changing fashions and fads of 1960s London menswear with quality tailoring and exciting fabrics. By 1966 the Spiegal's had opened an additional boutique called Mister Carnaby in Foubert's Place.
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High neck, gold lamè long sleeved shirt with turn over collar and double cuffs. The shirt fastens at the back of the neck with an Aero nylon zip closure to half way down the centre back. It has long sleeve vents and double cuffs with four button holes to be fastened with cufflinks.
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Label: Sportive Male by Paul / 39 & 47 Carnaby Street, London W1 / 37/38
Materials: Lamé
Size: M
Measurements: 745mm back turned down collar to hem x 520mm flat chest x 2mm deep x 600mm arm length
Details: Cuff sleeves, back zip
Physical Condition: Good, some pulled threads at hem
Materials: Lamé
Size: M
Measurements: 745mm back turned down collar to hem x 520mm flat chest x 2mm deep x 600mm arm length
Details: Cuff sleeves, back zip
Physical Condition: Good, some pulled threads at hem
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Photograph in: Bethan Bide and Lucie Whitmore, Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners shaped global style (London: Philip Wilson Publishers, 2023), p. 160.