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Author:   Nancy Deihl (New York University, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.558kg
ISBN:  

9781350001046

ISBN 10:   135000104
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   08 February 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction, Nancy Deihl I. Design Innovators 1. Jessie Franklin Turner: An Intimate Affair, Jan Glier Reeder 2. Virginia Woods Bellamy: The Poet as Knitter, Ann W. Braaten and Susan M. Strawn 3. Tina Leser: Global Vision, April Calahan 4. Sandra Garratt: Modular Clothing, Daniel James Cole II. Developing an Industry 5. Marion McCoy and Pauline Fracchia: Mid-20th-century Originators, Jean L. Parsons and Sara B. Marcketti 6. Fira Benenson: The People's Countess, Michael Mamp 7. Helen Lee and Suzanne Godart: Chic For Children, Jennifer Farley Gordon and Sara B. Marcketti 8. Nicki Catherine Scott Ladany: Chicago's Empress of Fashion, Adam MacPharlain 9. Jean Wright: the real Lilli Ann, Hannah Schiff 10. Mollie Parnis: Tastemaker, Annette Becker 11. Elizabeth Libby Payne: Designing for Mrs. Main Street America, Caroline A. Surrarrer and Catherine Amoroso Leslie 12. Ruth Finley's Fashion Calendar, Natalie Nudell III. Hollywood, Broadway, and Seventh Avenue 13. Viola Dimmitt: Los Angeles Entrepreneur, Shelly Foote 14. Kiviette: Star Performer, Dilia Lopez-Gydosh 15. Zelda Wynn Valdes: Uptown Modiste, Nancy Deihl 16. Vicky Tiel: A Couturiere in Paris, Lourdes Font Bibliography Index

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Accessible and excellently written, this important book begins the process of acknowledging the lives and talents of the many female fashion designers who continue to be unknown outside their workplaces. -- Jean Druesedow, Kent State University, USA

Author Information

Nancy Deihl is Director of the Costume Studies MA program at New York University, USA, specializing in the history of fashion and textiles from 1850 to the present. Deihl is co-author, with Daniel James Cole, of The History of Modern Fashion (2015).

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