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Article: What is it? What is it worth? Our antiques specialist, Helaine Fendelman, evaluates your finds and collectibles.(EXPERT APPRAISAL)
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- Country Living
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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I bought this bathing suit for $35 at Montana Vintage in Billings six years ago. Is it worth so much that I should stop wearing it to the YMCA?
--K.M., Red Lodge, Montana
What it is:
NETTIE ROSENSTEIN SWIMSUIT
Save it for special occasions--your suit was designed by Nettie Rosenstein. Though never as famous as designers such as Bonnie Cashin or Claire McCardell, Rosenstein had a big impact on 20th-century American fashion. After learning to sew as a child and immigrating to New York in the 1890s with her Austrian parents, she opened a Manhattan dress shop in 1916. By 1921, she employed 50 seamstresses and was selling her fashions in ...