Sketches of 6 outfits or pieces of clothing, with the text, String Beene Beene Bags Beene Jeans Boston Beenes presumably referring to the designer Geoffrey Beene. This is a cut -out of an advertisement and the copy reads, Ruth Kishline Welcome to our Beene Patch! Geoffrey Beene has found his way into the sportswear market and we are not sprouting String Beenes, Boston Beenes, Beene Bags and Beene Jeans .and all at sportswear prices. Come see how our Garden Grows! It also includes Ruth Kishline's Country Clothes Shop, and the address at 9215 Old Petersburg Rd. in Evansville, Ind. Geoffrey Beene (born Samuel Albert Bozeman Jr., August 30, 1927 � September 28, 2004) was an American fashion designer. Beene was one of New York's most famous fashion designers, recognized for his artistic and technical skills and for creating simple, comfortable and dressy women's wear. . In his 1970 collection, Beene applied the use of inexpensive fabrics such as sweatshirt and denim fabric for evening dresses. Introduced in 1971, the Beene Bag line of women�s wear used the same silhouettes as his couture line. By the mid-1970s, Beene had a number of licensing agreements for products such as eyeglasses and bed sheets, and also his most famously known cologne called Grey Flannel, launched in 1975.