Anne T. Hill
Hill (née Taffel; November 24, 1916 – March 8, 1999) was an American fashion designer and yoga teacher.
Anne T. Hill

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- Name
- Anne T.
- Born
- 24 November 1916
- Birthplace
- Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
- Died
- 8 March 1999
- Place of death
- Rancho Mirage, California, U.S.
- Known for
- Taffy Fashions
- Occupation
- Fashion designer, yoga teacher
- Spouse
- * Dr.
- Nationality
- United States
- Education
- Commercial High School
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Hill (née Taffel; November 24, 1916 – March 8, 1999) was an American fashion designer and yoga teacher.
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Anne T. Hill (1916–1999) was an American fashion designer. Born in Atlanta, the fashion designer died in Rancho Mirage. Anne T. Hill studied at Commercial High School.
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Key facts
• Name — Anne T. Hill • Born — 24 November 1916 • Birthplace — Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. • Died — 8 March 1999 • Place of death — Rancho Mirage, California, U.S. • Known for — Taffy Fashions • Occupation — Fashion designer, yoga teacher • Spouse — * Dr. Harry Lehrer
Early years
Early years
Hill was born in Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated from Commercial High School in 1933, attended the University of Georgia, and worked as a stenographer before moving to Los Angeles in 1937.
Taffy Fashions
Taffy Fashions
Hill designed dresses, predominantly cotton, for her own line, Taffy, from 1937 until March 1958. As women's fashions took up a larger budget slice, the popularity of her dresses grew. They were featured as "outstanding" in a Palm Springs Tennis Club fashion luncheon in 1948. Vogue and Harper's Bazaar carried full page ads for Taffy fashions during the 1950s, and covered Taffy fashions editorially. "There is nothing so feminine and romantic as a full skirt, pretty, with petticoats underneath," Hill told Women's Wear Daily. "The very feminine dresses almost all have bouffant skirts built over their own petticoats," wrote Eugenia Trinkle, fashion writer for the Star Telegram. Bergdorf Goodman, Garfinckel's, and Jacobson's carried Taffy fashions.
Health and yoga
Health and yoga
Through an acquaintance with Gypsy Boots, Hill became interested in health food and yoga. She studied yoga with Indra Devi, and produced her own yoga instructional video, as well as an inspirational poem.
Death
Death
Hill died in Rancho Mirage, California, in 1999.
Gallery
Gallery
• Illustration — Hill, Edgar L. McCoubrey, George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush • Illustration — Indra Devi, upper left; Hill, bottom center (record album cover) • Illustration — Gerald Ford, Hill and Edgar L. McCoubrey • Illustration — Taffy in Vogue, April 15, 1956, p 29 • Illustration — Taffy in Harper's Bazaar, August 1956 p 87 • Illustration — Taffy in Women's Wear Daily, 26 Feb 1956 • Illustration — Taffy in Harper's Bazaar, April 1957 • Illustration — Taffy at Bergdorf Goodman 1956 • Illustration — Taffy at Bergdorf Goodman 1956 • Illustration — Taffy at Garfinckel's c. 1956 • Illustration — Taffy at Jacobson's c. 1956 • Illustration — Taffy at Lillie Rubin c. 1956 • Illustration — Taffy in Berkeley 1956 • Illustration — Taffy in Cleveland 1956 • Illustration — Taffy in St Louis 1956 • Illustration — Taffy in Houston 1956 • Illustration — Taffy in Memphis 1956 • Illustration — Taffy in Palm Springs 1956 • Illustration — Taffy in Cincinnati 1956 • Illustration — Taffy in Corpus Christi 1956 • Illustration — Taffy promotional flyer 1956 • Illustration — Taffy promotional flyer 1956 • Illustration — Taffy in New York 1957 • Illustration — Taffy label • Illustration — (left to right) Alex Dreier, Bob Hope, Hill, Geraldine Dreier, Roy W. Hill at a fund raiser for Eisenhower Medical Center c. 1975 • Illustration — Hill and Dr. Harry Lehrer, c. 1940 • Illustration — Hill, c. 1947 • Illustration — Lynne Roberts (left), Hill (3rd from left), Hyman B. Samuels (front right), Dr. Harry Lehrer (extreme right behind Samuels) • Illustration — Hill, Edgar L. McCoubrey, 1991 • Illustration — Anne T. Hill, 1933 graduation, Commercial High School, Atlanta
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Identity and overview
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Origins and background
Origins and background
On origins, the institutional record states the following. Hill was born in 1916 at Atlanta. It is also recorded that anne T. Hill died in 1999 at Rancho Mirage.

Anne T. Hill, graduation photo from Commercial High School, Atlanta
Private collection institution QS:P195,somevalue,P3831
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Notes from the source article
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- 1.Commencement Exercises Held by Atlanta, Fulton High Schools. The Atlanta Constitution. 2. 1933-06-01.
- 2.Desert Days. Los Angeles Times. 33. 1948-11-24.
- 3.Vogue, April 15, 1956, p. 29
- 4.Harper's Bazaar. August 1956 p. 87
- 5."Cotton in the evening". Harper's Bazaar. April 1957.
- 6."Taffy Original Designs says fall line will be all cotton with full skirts". Women's Wear Daily. May 10, 1955.
- 7.Trinkle, Eugenia. Cotton Offered in All Seasons. Fort Worth Star-Telegram. 2. July 22, 1957.
- 8.YouTube wzkhZI8g77Q Stretch no Kvetch Yoga Exercises
- 9.Inspirational Poem
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