Clare Potter

Fashion Designer

Birthday July 7, 1903

Birth Sign Cancer

Birthplace New Jersey

DEATH DATE Jan 5, 1999 (95)

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About

Prolific fashion designer regarded as one of the early pioneers of American sportswear.

Before Fame

She majored in Fine Arts at the Pratt Institute in NYC.

Trivia

She often designed for politicians and royalty, including the infamous blue wool dress Eleanor Roosevelt wore to meet George VI.

Family Life

Her husband J. Sanford Potter died in 1994.

Associated With

Like artist Jack Kirby, she too graduated from the Pratt Institute in New York City.