Fashion Illustrations

This zine features eleven full-color images of fashion drawings by D. ‘Jame. Michael Thomas, a Chicago-based artist, found the drawings at a thrift store on Broadway Avenue near Devon. He bought one drawing for $5 but couldn’t decide on others. The store owner offered to sell all thirty-three drawings for $20. He said there had been more but had sold them. The drawings are dated from 1970-77. The store owner had purchased the drawings at an estate sale in Northern Indiana. No other information about D. Jame is known.

The booklet was produced for the “Archival Impulse” exhibition at the University of Illinois at Chicago, which includes all of D.’Jame’s drawings from Michael’s collection, as well as additional collections on loan from other Public Collectors participants.