The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish

by Linda Przybyszewski

Book Overview

"A tribute to a time when style -- and maybe even life -- felt more straightforward, and however arbitrary, there were definitive answers." -- Sadie Stein, Paris Review

As 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465036716
• ISBN13: 9780465036714
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.7"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Looking and feeling good never goes out of style

This book talks about how our dressing choices have become very, very casual. Further reading helps us get out of our rut of very casual t-shirts and jeans for everything we do. Positive dressing is very stylish