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Przybyszewski, Linda.
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Fashion -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Women fashion designers -- United States.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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The lost art of dres...
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The lost art of dress : the women who once made America stylish / Linda Przybyszewski.
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Przybyszewski, Linda.
New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2014.
Subjects
Fashion -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Women fashion designers -- United States.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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9780465036714 (hardback)
0465036716 (hardback)
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xv, 347 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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"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, however, the reign of the Dress Doctors was coming to an end. During the 70's and 80's, the rejection of the Dress Doctors went even further, as feminist groups targeted Home Economics classes in schools as examples of society's pervasive sexism"--
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Hawaii State Library
Art, Music & Recreation
746.92 Pr
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Adult Nonfiction
746.92 Przybys
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Kailua Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
746.92 Pr
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