num_pages: 347
description: A tribute to a time when style -- and maybe even life -- felt more straightforward and however arbitrary there were definitive answers. -- Sadie Stein Paris ReviewAs 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 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.
language: English
title: The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish
publisher: Basic Books