Emma Domb (c.1896–1988) was an American fashion designer who created feminine clothes for all occasions with a focus on affordability.
The "Lorrie Deb" division, was named after her daughter, operated into 1986 despite manufacturing being halted at the plant in 1974 due to Emma's illness and company dissolution in 1980.
[10][11][12] Despite being based on the west coast in San Francisco, her work was modeled and sold as far north in the United States as Alaska[13] and as far east as Washington, D.C. and Mississippi.
[21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] Stylist Patricia Field utilized Emma Domb dresses in the series Sex and the City and in the movie.
[35] Her work is preserved at the Science History Institute,[36] the Nevada State Library Archives and Public Records,[20] the North Dakota Heritage Center,[37] and the Costume Collection of the Fashion Merchandising and Management Program at California State University, Sacramento,[38] as well as the repository at the SCAD Museum of Art.