The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish

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The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish - Paperback

The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish - Paperback

by Linda Przybyszewski
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Book Overview

by Linda Przybyszewski (Author)

A New York Times Bestseller

From an award-winning historian, the fascinating tale of the 20th-century women who taught America how to dress

"A tribute to a time when style--and maybe even life--felt more straightforward, and however arbitrary, there were definitive answers." --Paris Review

As a glance down any street in America quickly reveals, American women have forgotten how to dress. We lack the fashion know-how we need to dress professionally and beautifully. In The Lost Art of Dress, historian and skilled dressmaker Linda Przybyszewski reveals that this wasn't always true.

In the first half of the twentieth century, a remarkable group of women--the so-called Dress Doctors--taught American women that knowledge, not money, was key to a beautiful wardrobe. They empowered women to design, make, and choose clothing for both the workplace and the home. Armed with the Dress Doctors' simple design principles--harmony, proportion, balance, rhythm, emphasis--modern American women from all classes learned to dress for all occasions in ways that made them confident, engaged members of society.

A captivating and beautifully illustrated look at the world of the Dress Doctors, The Lost Art of Dress introduces a new audience to their timeless rules of fashion and beauty--rules which, with a little help, we can certainly learn again.

Author Biography

Linda Przybyszewski is an associate professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. The author of The Republic According to John Marshall Harlan, the editor of Some Memories of a Long Life, 1854-1911, as well as a prize-winning dressmaker, she lives in South Bend, Indiana.

Number of Pages: 400
Dimensions: 1.2 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: March 29, 2016
ISBN9780465066865
Author Linda Przybyszewski
PublisherBasic Books
GenreBiography and History
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 2016
LanguageENG- English
Pages400
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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