1. Clare Potter was a fashion designer who was born in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1903.
12 Facts About Clare Potter
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Clare Potter's clothes were renowned for being elegant, but easy-to-wear and relaxed, and for their distinctive use of colour.
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Clare Potter founded a ready-to-wear fashion company in Manhattan named Timbertop in 1948, and in the 1960s she established a wholesale company to manufacture fashions.
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In 1925, before her graduation, Potter left Pratt to work for Edward L Mayer, a wholesale dress manufacturer in Manhattan, where she spent three years developing her skills and designing mid-market sportswear.
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Clare Potter was one of the first American designers to achieve such name recognition.
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Clare Potter was a keen sportswoman who particularly enjoyed horseback riding.
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Clare Potter designed for women like herself, saying in 1948:.
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In 1946, Clare Potter was awarded a Coty Award for her casual clothes and her distinctive use of colour.
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In 1948, Clare Potter launched a ready-to-wear company called Timbertop, with former magazine editor, Martha Stout.
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Clare Potter shared its name with the turkey farm in West Nyack where Potter and her husband, architect J Sanford Potter, lived.
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Clare Potter's business became a husband-and-wife concern, with J Sanford Potter assisting by drafting her clothing patterns.
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Sanford Potter died in 1994 and, at the age of 95, Clare Potter died in 1999 at their home in Fort Ann.