Product code: White Fox purchases Fur 1950’s Cashmere Sweater Bernhardt Altman Lined Original Buttons
A vintage 1950's 100% cashmere cream cardigan sweater, with a white fox fur collar. Detachable for cleaning with snaps. Lace and mesh lining Small moth hole in purchases back of sweater. Fox fur collar is giant and fluffy Bernhard Altmann was an Austrian textile manufacturer whose business was Aryanized and whose family's art collection was looted by Nazis because of their Jewish origins. He introduced cashmere wool to North America on a mass scale in 1947. The cashmere business started only in 1947, when he added the cashmere fiber line after a visit to Bermuda, where he learned that the delivery times of the Scottish manufacturers was over eighteen months, unheard of in the textile business. By 1951 his U.S. company outsold all the Scottish manufacturers. Bernhard Altmann was famous for his cashmere lines, but also produced clothes in Shetland wool and a lambswool/fur fibre blend called ‘Bernamere'. A 1960s advertising tagline for the company ran, ‘The Legend of a Great Knitter'. Features.
A vintage 1950's 100% cashmere cream cardigan sweater, with a white fox fur collar. Detachable for cleaning with snaps. Lace and mesh lining Small moth hole in purchases back of sweater. Fox fur collar is giant and fluffy Bernhard Altmann was an Austrian textile manufacturer whose business was Aryanized and whose family's art collection was looted by Nazis because of their Jewish origins. He introduced cashmere wool to North America on a mass scale in 1947. The cashmere business started only in 1947, when he added the cashmere fiber line after a visit to Bermuda, where he learned that the delivery times of the Scottish manufacturers was over eighteen months, unheard of in the textile business. By 1951 his U.S. company outsold all the Scottish manufacturers. Bernhard Altmann was famous for his cashmere lines, but also produced clothes in Shetland wool and a lambswool/fur fibre blend called ‘Bernamere'. A 1960s advertising tagline for the company ran, ‘The Legend of a Great Knitter'. Features.