Figure 1.--La Redoute offerd this Rugby-style shirt and sport shorts in its 1980 Spring-Summer catalog.
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Figure 1.--La Redoute offerd this Rugby-style shirt and sport shorts in its 1980 Spring-Summer catalog. |
(La) Redoute was an important French Department store. We have no information about the store and when it was founded. One French reader has mentioned the "La Redoute" catalog was well known throughhout France. The clothing offered is a good indicator of styles that were widely worn in France and by French people in overseas locations. The some styles were also widely worn in Belgium. The store published a Spring-Summer and Fall-Winter catalog. I'm not sure when they began publishing these catalogs. We have pages from these catalogs from te 1970s and 1980s, but believe that these catalgs began well before that time. Just when they began mail order marketing we are not sure. The catalog is thus an important source of information about French fashion trends.
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