Hip-huggers

Hip-huggers are pants worn by both men and women, generally made of denim and fitted tightly around the hips and thighs, while usually having flared or bell-bottom lower legs. Hip-huggers were first designed by Irene Kasmer in 1957 in Los Angeles, California.

Hip-huggers

Hip-huggers

Hip-huggers were worn by the mods in the mid 1960s and into the early 1970s. The late 1970s saw the return of hip-huggers in the disco scene. They were also worn, but to a lesser extent, in the early 1980s, but made a reappearance in the 2000s.[1] The hip-huggers of the 2000s were distinguished by the tightness of the knee, as well as the lower rise of the jeans, typically well below the belly button. This is the product of the boot cut style.[2]

The 2000 styles saw pants that were not as low as the ones introduced in 2001, with a kind of "false" hip hugger introduced. The waist was somewhat high with the belt-loops being wide, giving off the illusion of low-cut pants while covering more of the body.[3]

Hip-huggers can be worn in a variety of different styles, sometimes "riding" low to expose the buttocks to varying degrees. There are also variations of hip-huggers created with a material designed to stretch and tighter fitting stretch materials that vary in color.

Irene Kasmer

Irene Kasmer[4] was born on September 24, 1926 in Bilky, Czechoslovakia to Malvina Amalia (nee Klein) Markovic and Izidor Markovic. Kasmer came to the United States in 1948, and obtained an Associate of Arts in Art, from Los Angeles Trade Technology Junior College, Los Angeles, in 1953. Kasmer is an American Fashion and textile executive.[5]

Career
  • Designer, Bell Sportswear, Los Angeles, 1948-1950
  • Consultant, designer, since 1951
  • professor costume design, lecturer, Los Angeles Trade Technology Junior College, 1951-1954
  • chief designer, director, Ardee Sportswear, Los Angeles, 1951-1966[6]
  • president, Irene Kasmer Inc., Los Angeles, since 1966[7][8][9][10][11]
  • President, Museum Fashion Designers and Creators, Los Angeles, since 1991
  • founder, president, board director, Modac Museum Fashion Designers and Creators, Los Angeles, since 1994
  • listed as a noteworthy Fashion and textile executive by Marquis Who's Who[12]
  • Fashion advising committee to mayor, Los Angeles, since 1970[13]
  • Member, Fashion Group International (board directors since 1960)
  • Textile Group International (board directors since 1987).
  • Avocations: art, environment, architecture, photography, historical preservation.[14]

Honors
  • Young Designer award, California Stylist, 1957
  • Mayda award May Company, 1960
  • Trend Setting Toby award, 1962
  • Designer award Monsanto and DuPont, 1960-1965

Personal life

Irene Markovic married Gerald Stuart Kasmer, August 29, 1954, her children are: Jeff Anthony, Bruce Neal, and Lauren Michele.

References
  1. "Hip Huggers". Retrieved 2 July 2014.
  2. "Getting Tight with Hip Huggers". realvintagejeans.com. 2008-02-12. Archived from the original on 2014-01-17. Retrieved 2014-01-15.
  3. "Hip Huggers". Retrieved 2 July 2014.
  4. Morrison, Patt (11 April 1999). "The pulse of history can be counted..." Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2 February 2021. Her styles, like her patented hip-huggers in 1958, made the pages of Seventeen magazine. It was to Kasmer that Dupont brought its first 10 yards of Lycra in 1959--a periwinkle blue, she remembers, from which she made pants and a vest.
  5. "California Fashion Creators National Press Week". The San Bernardino County Sun from. San Bernardino, California: Newspapers.com. November 7, 1957. p. 33. Retrieved 2 February 2021. Ardee Sportswear introduces a new trend toward the no-iron fabrics, having worked out a group with new DuPont materials which have been nationally confined to this house. Ann Carlson, commentator for the show, announced a Japanese theme in presenting the collection, designed by Irene Kasmer. This is one of the sportswear houses which strives to give its accounts the newest in styling at a price range within the means of the average girl.
  6. "Fashion Press Week in Los Angeles". Independent. Long Beach, California: Newspapers.com. November 5, 1957. p. 10. Retrieved 2 February 2021. Sun-baked colors of orange crush, raspberry, coral and blue-greens splash delightfully through slim pants, sweaters, dresses, blouses and skirts. The greatest innovation in fashion the past few years has been drip-dry fabrics. Stressing this in its spring line of sportswear is Ardee of California. Designer Irene Kasmer has used cotton and dacron in the entire collection* from short shorts to Glenn plaid skirts and blousons. When dacron, nylon and cotton woven together are put into the dye vat, the cotton stays white, and the dacron and nylon take different shades of the- color, such as a ' light plaid, one that is featured prominently in the Ardee line.
  7. CARLTON, MARY ELLIS (August 18, 1967). "HER HIP-HUGGERS CIRCLED THE GLOBE". Independent. Long Beach, California: Newspapers.com. p. 26. Retrieved 2 February 2021. Practically every designer in the business has either copied or tried to take credit for her low-slung look of 1957 that swept the fashion world and dropped waistlines from here to St. Tropez. Especially St. Tropez So many pants started riding the hipbones of jet-setters who sunned at the famous French Riveria resort that, as often is the case, many fashion chroniclers said it started there. BUT IRENE KASMER knew differently. The plucky designer already had the patent under her belt."Even the name 'hip-hugger' is mine and 1 have a patent on that, too," the bubbly, ecstatic young thinker said during an interview in her Los Angeles showroom....Irene Kasmer has gone into business for herself. After 15 years of designing trend- setting fashions for a large California house and "making millions for others," she's going from drawing board to cutting room to power machinery to create NOW! fashions under her own label.
  8. CARLTON, MARY ELLIS (August 21, 1967). "AT "IN" SESSION '67, A GRAND FINALE". Independent. Long Beach, California: Newspapers.com. p. 18. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  9. "Irene Kasmer Inc Beverly Hills, CA". Company Profile : Competitors, Financials & Contacts. Dun & Bradstreet. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  10. McAllister, Robert (August 8, 2003). "Irene Kasmer to Launch Retro Line | California Apparel News". Archived from the original on 2 February 2021. Retrieved 2 February 2021. The designer will bring back signature styles such as her hip-hugger pants from 1957 and five-way blouse from 1967 as well as beach and Hawaiian-themed outfits. Kasmer became known for these styles while producing her own label from the 1950s to 1990s. In recent years, she has been consulting and free-lancing as well as trying to get a fashion museum built in Los Angeles to house her enormous collection of vintage fashions.
  11. brotherpreacher. "Feb 26-1966 TV Guide". eBay. Archived from the original on 2 February 2021. Retrieved 2 February 2021. FEBRUARY 26, 1966 ISSUE OF TV GUIDE, WITH CHARLES BRILES, LINDA EVANS, AND BARBARA STANWYCK OF "THE BIG VALLEY" ON THE COVER. ARTICLES INCLUDING: BARBARA STANWYCK; DICK KALLMAN; THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW; DEBBIE WATSON MODELS IRENE KASMER SPORTSWEAR.
  12. https://www.jfsla.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/JFS_annualreport_2016_final_web.pdf
  13. Maese, Kathryn (July 16, 2001). "Designing Woman". Los Angeles Downtown News - The Voice of Downtown Los Angeles. Retrieved 1 February 2021. A self-described innovator, Kasmer has no false modesty. At a time when women stayed home and baked, Kasmer was designing hip huggers, Hawaiian shirts and navel-baring blouses, and was the first California manufacturer to snag the cover of Seventeen magazine.
  14. Irene Kasmer, on Behalf of Herself and All Others Similarly Situated
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