Clare Potter

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Clare Potter was a fashion designer born in 1903 in Jersey City, New Jersey.

She was one of the first American fashion designers to be known as a solo design professional in the 1930s.

Clarepotter, her elided name, has dubbed her one of the first women to design American sportswear.

She was based in Manhattan and continued designing into the 1940s and 1950s.

Her clothes were known for their sophisticated appearance, but they were also sharable and loosened, as well as their distinct use of color.

In 1948, she founded Timbertop, a ready-to-wear fashion business in Manhattan, and in the 1960s, she formed a wholesale company to produce fashions.

Potter was one of the 17 women brought together by Edna Woolman Chase, editor-in-chief of Vogue, to form the Fashion Group International, Inc. in 1928.

Early life and education

Clare Meyer was born in Jersey City, just across the Hudson River from Manhattan, and she began her studies at the Pratt Institute of Design in fine arts. After seeing costumes made by Potter and made for herself, the Pratt Institute's director suggested that she study costume design.

Potter left Pratt to work with Edward L. Mayer, a Manhattan wholesale clothing company, where she spent three years finely perfecting her craft and designing mid-market sportswear.

Later life

Clare Potter started working on her farm independently in the mid-1950s. With J. Sanford Potter assisting in designing her clothing styles, her company became a husband-and-wife affair. Her later collections were more tailored and elegant than her earlier designs.

The Potters converted Lake Nebo, New York, in the late 1950s, which was designed and built by J. Sanford. They raised Dalmatian dogs, grew camellias, and loved riding and hunting in addition to their regular duties. They rode their horses in Virginia, where the local hunt clubs enjoyed a long season.

J. Sanford Potter died in 1994, and Clare Potter died in 1999 at their Fort Ann home at the age of 95. There is no surviving family at that time.

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Career

Potter returned to Manhattan in 1930 and began working with Charles W. Nudelman Inc., a low-cost apparel company that specialized in affordable fashion, following a six-month absence in Mexico.

Potter was unintentionally promoted by Dorothy Shaver, then vice president of Lord & Taylor's department store, at a time when designers for large companies were not recognized by name. Potter was one of the first American designers to be recognized as such a name.

Potter was on display in 1936 alongside Elizabeth Hawes and Muriel King in the second Lord & Taylor "American Look" exhibition, which praised home-grown American design talent. In 1938, she was named the first Lord & Taylor Design Award for outstanding work in the field of sportswear for women.

Potter, a keen sportswoman who adored horseback riding, was a keen sportswoman who loved horseback riding. She created for women like herself in 1948: She created for women like herself.

A two-piece bathing suit made up of separate small top and bloomers, a jacket meant for evening wear, and a skirt with a diagonal drape would have been included during the 1940s. In the 1998-1999 exhibit Designing Women: American Style 1940-1960 at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, Connecticut, examples of these styles were on display. Her use of color was striking, with one 1940s evening outfit consisting of a pink blouse, green belt, and pale blue skirt. Other styles were produced in a single, distinctive hue, such as Eleanor Roosevelt's blue wool dress to visit George VI and his queen consort, Elizabeth in London on October 23, 1942. The Fashion Group International, FGI, Roosevelt was a co-founder with Potter and others of a group of women interested in advancing sophisticated and trendy clothing for women. Potter was given a Coty Award in 1946 for her casual clothing and her distinctive use of color. Omar Kiam and Vincent Monte-Sano received the award, and she and Omar Kiam shared it on social media. Despite being regarded as a leading figure in sportswear design, curator Richard Martin has claimed that Potter was "not a pure sportswear advocate, but rather a figure with a subtle, negotiated link to sportswear."

Potter formed Timbertop, a ready-to-wear business founded in 1948, with Martha Stout, a former magazine editor. Potter and her husband, architect J. Sanford Potter, died while sharing the name with the turkey farm in West Nyack, where the company lived. About 1930, they had married about 1930.

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