Mommy dressing
Subtitle: a love story, after a fashion
By: by Lois Gould.
Edition: 1st Anchor Books ed.
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Copeland, Jo, d. 1982 -- Family.; Gould, Lois -- Family.; Women fashion designers -- United States -- Biography.; Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Biography.
Description: Compelling and multilayered, Mommy Dressing recounts the author's bittersweet girlhood as the daughter of one of America's first star designers. Lois Gould now offers a memoir that is at once a personal history of her family and a fascinating portrayal of New York's emergence as the world's fashion and glamour capital.

Both stories revolve around the central figure of Jo Copeland, a brilliant artist and working mother whose career spanned four decades, from the birth of New York fashion in the 1920s to the close of her own design studio in the 1960s.

The story of Jo Copeland's rise to success - in the company of other such early designers as Hattie Carnegie, Claire McCardell, and Vera Maxwell - is also the story of the headstrong, difficult rise of American fashion. And through the lens of Lois Gould's childhood, an interior world as remote and complex as the mother she strove to understand, readers are given a glimpse of the distant landscape of beautiful exteriors that her mother both created and inspired.