Clare Rose history

The suggestion that Chanel was designing interiors is an interesting one – in this she was following the example of Paul Poiret whose Atelier Martine furnishing division (founded 1911) featured prominently in Les Modes account of life in Paris during air-raids.

However it is likely that the ‘Russian whose reputation circles the world’ is a reference to the Polish-born Helena Rubinstein, who had set up a New York salon in 1915 after establishing herself in Australia, London and Paris.

Beaded evening bag design, ,1917

In early November 1918, French couture was in a state of limbo – looking forward to the imminent end of the war, but not sure when it would arrive, and still facing shortages and disruptions.

The 1919 version of their course was probably the document that introduced romper suits to British mothers.

In November 1936 he struck out on his own, forming Clare Rose, Inc. by launching a small distributorship to handle Mission orange soda, a California beverage.

It is likely that the author is responding to arguments against female suffrage in France – which was not achieved until 1944, partly because of concerns that women lacked the ability to make independent political decisions.

1947: Clare Rose become Anheuser-Busch distributor for eastern Suffolk County.

In 1964 Anheuser-Busch asked Clare Rose to add the western half of Suffolk County.

In 1987 Clare Rose also faced new competition in the form of Coors Distributing Company of New York, which now entered the Long Island market.

1991: Nassau County added to Anheuser-Busch territory.

1993: Clare Rose becomes Anheuser-Busch wholesaler to Staten Island.

By 2000, as a result, revenues grew to about $110 million, a total that made Clare Rose one of Long Island's largest private companies.

In 2002 Clare Rose reached the $150 million mark in annual sales, and a year later reach $178 million.

As was the case with the founder, who was still alive in 2004, responsibility was smoothly passed to a new generation by Mark and Frederic Rose.

Raggedness and Respectability in Barnardo’s Archive, International Journal of Childhood in the Past 1 (2008)

What was uniform about the Fin-de-Siècle sailor suit? Journal of Design History, 23 (2011)