![]() We would go to Hudson’s - Diane used to work there. “Of course, Saks was the greatest place in the world, to be actually buying at Saks! I met someone who said her aunt worked at Jacobson’s - she had written me, and so we used to come in there. “When we got the hit records, we got into the longer dresses,” Wilson said. ![]() They didn’t use designers right away, but bought dresses off the rack from Detroit department stores. It isn’t hard to spot those frocks in very early publicity shots, with then-chic accessories like bows attached to their bouffant hairstyles. She and Ross would also buy material at one of Detroit’s department stores and sew their own dresses, always short in length. When Wilson, Diana Ross and Florence Ballard first started out (with Barbara Marti), as the Primettes, their manager Milton Jenkins would have one of his girlfriends buy them clothing, Wilson recalled. “We learned from all of them,” Wilson said. ![]() She grew up seeing the black stars of the late ’40s and ’50s, whom their parents idolized that included Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne and Dinah Washington. ![]()
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