Dressing Modern Maternity: The Frankfurt Sisters of Dallas and the Page Boy Label

by Kay Goldman

In Depression-era Dallas, Elsie Frankfurt and Edna Frankfurt Ravkind raised five hundred dollars and launched a daring new enterprise, Page Boy Maternity Clothing--the first to engineer elegance in comfort. When Louise Frankfurt Gartner joined the team, the sisters' combined engineering, business, and PR genius made Page Boy the foremost maternity-clothing manufacturer in the United States. Dressing entertainment icons such as Loretta Young, Elizabeth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896727998
• ISBN13: 9780896727991
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.3" x 8.0"