Mid-century Magazine Ads from the Spring Cotton Mills

Recently while handling family papers collected by my grandmother in North Carolina, I came across a packet of color magazine ads from Springs Cotton Mills. Looking back, she used this material as inspiration for a party costume many years ago. But now I see its potential significance in the history of advertising and the movement toward social justice. The set of four advertisements is now cataloged as The Elliott Springs Touch at Hagley. Springmaid girls adorn the sport shirt of Elliott White Springs.

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Vintage Springs Cotton Mills/Springmaid Fabrics ad

Controversial Springmaid Fabrics Ads From the 1940s and 1950s

Mid-century Magazine Ads from the Spring Cotton Mills

fabric advertising The Vintage Traveler

Springmaid Fabrics, You So Naughty! – The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

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Mid-century Magazine Ads from the Spring Cotton Mills

And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the

Issue 58 - Magazine

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Vintage print ad advertisement Fashion Men Columbia Sportswear

Targeted at trade fabric buyers, very sexist and frankly weird