The lost art of dress : the women who once made America stylish /
"The Lost Art of Dress explores how, in the first half of the 20th century, a remarkable group of women, whom Przybyszewski calls the Dress Doctors, taught Americans how to dress well and spearheaded a nationwide movement toward beautiful, economical, and egalitarian fashion. By the 1960s, howe...
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New York :
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Introducing the Dress Doctors
- Art: principles for beauty
- Occasions: the duty and pleasure of dress
- Thrift: much for little
- Revolt: the fall of the Dress Doctors
- Aftermath: tyrannies of age and size.