Once the trio were recognized as Motown stars, salespeople warmed up. I already own a signed copy but bought a second one tonight, as I. You can purchase a copy with a book-plate insert signed by Mary, at the link below. In case there is someone who does not yet own a copy of Mary's beautiful Supreme Glamour book, Premier Collectibles' website is currently having a sale. A lot of times we’d go in and they didn’t even want to wait on us because we were black.” Supreme Glamour book signed by Mary Wilson. We would go to Hudson’s - Diane used to work there. Birdsong, Jean Terrell and a revolving door of. Ross left the group in 1970, and it reverted to the original name with Ms.

“Of course, Saks was the greatest place in the world, to be actually buying at Saks! I met someone who said her aunt worked at Jacobson’s - she had written me, and so we used to come in there. Supreme Glamour includes costumes after Ms. “When we got the hit records, we got into the longer dresses,” Wilson said. There are other gowns found on Ebay and elsewhere, where loving fans have purchased and returned them to Ms. As the Cinderellas of Motown in the 1960s We were princesses, Wilson recalls Supreme Glamour cultivates. Mary Wilson’s Supremes gowns collection has toured the world, both on the bodies on the Supremes themselves, as well as in finely-curated displays in prestigious exhibitions. Supreme Glamour: Mary Wilson (Rescheduled) Join one of the founding members of The Supremes for a discussion of the sounds and look of this groundbreaking group. They didn’t use designers right away, but bought dresses off the rack from Detroit department stores. Mary Wilson performs at Amoeba Records on Nov. It isn’t hard to spot those frocks in very early publicity shots, with then-chic accessories like bows attached to their bouffant hairstyles. She and Ross would also buy material at one of Detroit’s department stores and sew their own dresses, always short in length. When Wilson, Diana Ross and Florence Ballard first started out (with Barbara Marti), as the Primettes, their manager Milton Jenkins would have one of his girlfriends buy them clothing, Wilson recalled. “We learned from all of them,” Wilson said. She grew up seeing the black stars of the late ’40s and ’50s, whom their parents idolized that included Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne and Dinah Washington.

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