The Suzy Perette Company was located in New York City at 134 W. 37th Street from 1949 to the early 1970s. The Suzy Perette name was a registered trademark of Lombardy Dress (founded as Lombardy Frocks in 1930) and was first used in commerce in 1946. The Suzy Perette name was registered by Lombardy Frocks in 1954. A sister label to Suzy Perette is the Gigi Young Fashions label (late fifties to 1966). This label followed the same successful style formula of Suzy Perette designs, but were sold as a less expensive line.

A popular designer for the Suzy Perette Company was Victor Costa who worked for the company from 1965 to 1973.

An interesting note: The following paragraph came from Paris in the Fifties, by Stanley Karnow. Our thanks to Susan - smm43 - for finding this historical information.

"A spectrum of options was available to wholesalers. I discussed one of them with Sidney Blauner, a chunky man in his fifties whose Manhattan firm turned out a line under the label Suzy Perette. For an ante of two thousand dollars and royalties, he acquired the right to incorporate Dior's notions into dresses that retailed in the United States for fifty or sixty dollars. Thus, on a slim budget, an Atlanta stenographer or a Cleveland nurse could emulate a glamorous Parisienne. As Blauner told me, "If you don't come to Paris, you're missing the boat. There are more ideas in a thimble here than in all of America."