Bonwit Teller Window Display Featuring Women's Italian Knit Jacket and Lambetta Motor Scooter

Identifier

http://dp.la/api/items/b209250a7aa5769dad2ab2067002a97c

Title

Bonwit Teller Window Display Featuring Women's Italian Knit Jacket and Lambetta Motor Scooter

Creator

Dan Arje

Date

January 22 1957

Description

Bonwit Teller window display featuring women's Italian knitwear, and a Lambretta motor scooter. The mannequin is standing beside the scooter wearing a knit jacket, dress with a pleated skirt, gloves, hat, jewelry, and heeled shoes. The second mannequin stands beside the first dressed as a motor vehicle technician, wearing a jumpsuit and wind goggles. A banner at the bottom of the display reads "Zooming in from Italy.. Bonwit's exciting new Italian knits... Sports Floor the Fifth... Zooming in from Italy... The news making Lambretta... Courtesy of the Innocenti Corp. Lambretta Division."

Subject

Department stores
Show windows

Source

Empire State Digital Network

Relation

http://digitalarchives.library.newschool.edu/admin/media/kellen/images/1/3/0/50470_ca_object_representations_media_13079_small.jpg

Type

image

References

http://digitalarchives.library.newschool.edu/index.php/Detail/objects/KA0001_000415

Date

January 22 1957

Source

Empire State Digital Network

Subject

Department stores
Show windows

Citation

Dan Arje, “Bonwit Teller Window Display Featuring Women's Italian Knit Jacket and Lambetta Motor Scooter,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed August 2, 2026, http://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/5238.

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