EVAN PICONE LADIES BLACK & GOLD FLORAL COLLARLESS LUXURY EVENING JACKET

EVAN PICONE IMMACULATE! MEASUREMENTS: SHOULDERS ARMPITS SLEEVE LENGTH JACKET LENGTH Founded in 1949 when Charles Evans came to Picone with a skirt design that he wanted to sell. Picone, a tailor, made the sample overnight. The men went into business, and the Evan-Picone brand of conservative, timeless sportswear quickly became a success. It was sold to Revlon for $12 million in 1962, but Picone bought the company back four years later. In 1981, he sold it again, this time to Palm Beach Inc. Picone entered the garment business as a boy in his native Sicily. By the late 1930s, he had immigrated to the United States and opened a tailor shop, specializing in men’s trousers. He was supplying trousers to stores such as Brooks Brothers in the post-World War II years when he met Evans. PHOTO: Robert J. Evans, 28-year-old Vice-President of Evan-Picone, a large New York sportswear manufacturing company, was signed yesterday (Monday) to play the role of the late Irving Thalberg in 'Man of a Thousand Faces with James Cagney at Universal-International Studios, after being 'discovered' at the poolside of the Beverly Hills Hotel by Thalberg's widow, Norma Shearer. Knowing that U-I was seeking an actor to portray Thalberg in the film, a life story of Lon Chaney, Miss Shearer became an impromptu talent scout, rushed Evans to the studio, and ten minutes later he was signed for the role of Edward Muhl, studio production chief.