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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Przybyszewski, Linda, author.     Subjects     Fashion -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Women fashion designers -- United States.     United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Przybyszewski, Linda, author.       by title:      The lost art of dres...         MARC Display

The lost art of dress [electronic resource] : the women who once made America stylish / Linda Przybyszewski. by Przybyszewski, Linda, author. New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, c2014. Subjects Fashion -- United States -- History -- 20th century.   Women fashion designers -- United States.   United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=D60FE9DC-DE20-46BB-B835-9FF09D99D7FA This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d60fe9dc-de20-46bb-b835-9ff09d99d7fa&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/1486-1/{D60FE9DC-DE20-46BB-B835-9FF09D99D7FA}Img100.jpg ISBN:  0465080472 (electronic bk.) 9780465080472 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource (xv, 347 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) Requests:  0 Summary:  "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 70s and 80s, 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"--   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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