Foga List
Thanks to Bbrueg on Fashion Trac (unfortunately website no longer exists).
Every so often, someone asks who the members of the FOGA (Fashion Originators Guild of America) were. For future reference, here’s a membership list from January 1941 (In two parts).
Keep in mind that these names are the names of the COMPANIES which belonged to the FOGA; not necessarily the names you’d find on the labels in or in magazine advertisements.
1. Abbate-Swfit, Inc.
2. Adler & Adler, Inc.
3. Altmark, Milton, Inc.
4. Appel, Bernard, Inc.
5. Arkay Junior Frocks
6. Armour, Charles, Inc.
7. Aywon Dress Company
8. Babs Junior, Inc.
9. Bagro Gowns, Inc.
10. Barbara Costume Co.
11. Barnett, Joseph & Ben, Inc.
12. Barrack, Rose, Inc.
13. Bass, Kermit-Gross, Monroe, Inc.
14. Bass, William Dress Corp.
15. Bender & Hamburger, Inc.
16. Blotta & Conti, Inc.
17. Capri Frocks, Inc.
18. Carofiol-Silverman Company
19. Carlye Dress Corporation
20. Carnegie, Hattie, Inc.
21. Casino Dresses, Inc.
22. Cohen, G. W. Co.
23. Cohen, H.&I. Goshin
24. Crystal, David, Inc.
25. Davidow, Inc. “Sportswear”
26. Davis A. & Sons, Inc.
27. Deitsch, Wersba & Coppola, Inc.
28. Dick, Samuel H. Inc.
29. Doctor Dresses, Inc.
30. Dolces Dresses, Inc.
31. Downs, Mabel McIlvain, Inc.
32. Duke, Anna, Inc.
33. Elfreda, Inc.
34. Feigenbaum & Adelson, Inc.
35. Flora Dress Co.
36. Fox-Brownie, Inc.
37. Franklin Dress Co.
38. Friedell, Eileen, Inc.
39. Gallagher, Louise Barnes, Inc.
40. Gans, Henry
41. Gerrick, Ed, Inc.
42. Ginsburg & abelson, Inc.
43. Goodman, A & Co, Inc.
44. Goodstein, David M, Inc.
45. Gorgeous Frocks, Inc.
46. Gotham Coat Co. Inc.
47. Greenberg, Fred Dress Co.
48. Gross-Sydney, Inc.
49. Halpert, Joseph, Inc.
50. Herbert, Myron, Inc.
51. Horwitz and Duberman
52. Illinois Dress Company
53. International Dress Company
54. Janowitz-Conrad, Inc.
55. Junior Formals, Inc.
56. Junior Guild Frocks, Inc.
57. Junior League Frocks, Inc.
58. Kane-Weill, Inc.
59. Kaplan & Grabois, Inc.
60. Kaplan & Wassner, Inc.
61. Kass, Samuel Gowns, Inc.
62. Katz-Stark, Inc.
63. Kondazian, Charles & Papaz, Inc.
64. Lang, Charles-Cooper, Charles, Inc.
65. Lang-Kohn, Inc.
66. La Rue Dresses, Inc.
67. Laura Lee Frocks, Inc.
68. Lee, Lettie, Inc.
69. Lenkowsky Dresses, Inc.
70. Levine, Joe Dress Co., Inc.
71. Marcus, E. N. & Co.
72. Margot Dresses, Inc.
73. Mary Lee, Inc.
74. Milgrim
75. Mil-Jay, Inc.
76. Miller, Charles, Inc.
77. Milmont Gowns, Inc.
78. Monarch Garment Co., Inc.
79. Monteil, Germaine, Inc.
80. Morris & Strong, Inc.
81. Muffet, Mary, Inc.
82. Musman-Pincus, Inc.
83. Mutual Rosenblum Corporation
84. Nudelman, Chas. W., Inc.
85. Parnes, Paul, Inc.
86. Parnes, Samuel R., Company
87. Parnis, Jerry, Inc.
88. Paris-Levinson, Inc.
89. Patullo Modes, inc.
90. Perkins, Patricia, Inc.
91. Pickwick Dress Co., Inc.
92. Pierrot Dress Co.
93. Reich Dress Co.
94. Reich-Goldfarb & Co., Inc.
95. Reig, Ben, Inc.
96. Ren-Eta Gowns, Inc.
97. Rentner, Ira and Miller, Inc.
98. Rentner, Leonard, Inc.
99. Rentner, Maurice, Inc.
100. Robbins, C.H.D. Co.
101. Robinson Bros. Co.
102. Rosenberg, Zoltan
103. Rosenstein, Nettie Gowns, Inc.
104. Rosenthal & Kalman Co., Inc
105. Rudolf Gowns, Inc.
106. Ruffalo Bros., Inc.
107. Salkin, Philip, Inc.
108. Schwade, William, Inc.
109. Shane, Susan
110. Sheila-Lynn Dresses, Inc.
111. Silver Dresses, Inc.
112. Sondheim, Herbert, Inc.
113. Spectator Sports, Inc.
114. Sport-Craft, Inc.
115. Star-Maid Dresses, Inc.
116. Starr, Frank-Friedlander, Inc.
117. Steinberg, Sam & Co., Inc.
118. Strauss-Miller, inc.
119. Taylor, Janet, Inc.
120. Troy, Hannah, Inc.
121. Warshauer & Franck, Inc.
122. Westheim, David S. Corp.
123. Witkin & Schneider