Wear and tear
Subtitle: the threads of my life
By: Tracy Tynan
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9781501123689
Subjects: Women fashion designers; Biography; Fashion designers
Description: "The memoirs of a celebrity costume designer describe her upbringing in the fashionable celebrity circles of her literary parents, her family's artistic but traumatizing approaches to shopping and how the fashion-savvy perspectives of her early years shaped her relationships and career,"--NoveList.
Table of contents: title: The lemon-yellow underpants; title: My mother's fur coat; title: The pearl necklace; title: The pale blue chemise; title: School uniforms: purple, blue, and none; title: The brown wellington boots; title: Bikinis and water skis; title: The apple-green shoes; title: The white cotton circle-stitched torpedo bra; title: White jeans and white denim jacket; title: My mother's Pucci dress; title: The gold flapper dress; title: The silver chain and the poncho; title: Sexcapades and the plain pinafores; title: Twenty-one in Ossie Clark; title: The one-size-fits-all clothing that fits in a bag; title: Pierrot; title: The brown fedora and the gold lamé jeans; title: The leisure suit and Guayabera years; title: Black is black: memorials 1, 2, and 3; title: The diaries and the gold watch; title: The chitenge; title: The T-shirt wedding dress; title: Breathless beginnings: the shirt-jac; title: Freebies, '50s glamour, and funky smells; title: The maroon plaid dress; title: It helps to be married to the costume designer: the crepe de chine wedding dress; title: Great balls of fire! The faux-leopard-trim suit; title: The pink knitted cap; title: The striped silk socks; title: The pink quartz heart; title: The Muji T-shirt; title: The ultimate blended family: more wedding attire; title: The black trench coat; title: Glamour togs; title: Comfort with style.