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The lost art of dress :

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0465036716

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0465080472

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9780465036714

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9780465080472

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The lost art of dress :

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[Book]

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the women who once made America stylish /

First Statement of Responsibility

Linda Przybyszewski

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xv, 347 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates :

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illustrations (some color) ;

Dimensions

25 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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

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"As a glance down any street in America quickly reveals, American women have forgotten how to dress. We chase fads, choose inappropriate materials and unattractive cuts, and waste energy tottering in heels when we could be moving gracefully. Quite simply, we lack the fashion know-how we need to dress professionally and flatteringly. As historian and expert dressmaker Linda Przybyszewski reveals in The Lost Art of Dress, it wasn't always like this. In the first half of the twentieth century, a remarkable group of women-the so-called Dress Doctors-taught American women how to stretch each yard of fabric and dress well on a budget. Knowledge not money, they insisted, is the key to timeless fashion. Based in Home Economics departments across the country, the Dress Doctors offered advice on radio shows, at women's clubs, and in magazines. Millions of young girls read their books in school and at 4-H clothing clubs. As Przybyszewski shows, the Dress Doctors' concerns weren't purely superficial: they prized practicality, and empowered women to design and make clothing for both the workplace and the home. They championed skirts that would allow women to move about freely and campaigned against impractical and painful shoes. Armed with the Dress Doctors' simple design principles-harmony, proportion, balance, rhythm, emphasis-modern American women from all classes could learn to dress for all occasions in a way 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."--

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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"--

Fashion-- United States-- History-- 20th century

Women fashion designers-- United States

United States, Social life and customs, 20th century

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Przybyszewski, Linda

Date of Transaction

20141031034709.0

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