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Linda Przbyszewski is an associate professor of history at the University of Cincinnati.

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2018OctImport (1) 640PRZ (1) American women have forgotten how to dress. We chase fads (1) Amerikanische Geschichte (3) and empowered women to design and make clothing for both the workplace and the home. They championed skirts that would allow women to move about freely and campaigned against impractical and painful shoes. Armed with the Dress Doctors’ simple design (1) and in magazines. Millions of young girls read their books in school and at 4-H clothing clubs. As Przybyszewski shows (1) and waste energy tottering in heels when we could be moving gracefully. Quite simply (1) at women’s clubs (1) Biographie (2) Biographie/Memoiren (2) choose inappropriate materials and unattractive cuts (1) Clothing Budget (1) Dress Doctors (2) dressing (2) emphasis—modern American women from all classes could learn to dress for all occasions in a way that made them confident (1) engaged members of society.A captivating and beautifully-illustrated look at the world of the Dress Doctors (1) Erwachsener (1) EWH (1) fashion-beauty (1) Gelesen (3) gelesen 2014 (2) Geschichte (13) GoodReadsImport1-24 (1) history of sewing (1) Kleid (2) Kultur (4) Mode (19) Modegeschichte (4) most-interesting-world-history-smal (1) noch zu lesen (32) nonfiction/history/cultural (1) Oberstes Gericht (4) Recht (2) Sachbuch (11) Stil (4) the Dress Doctors’ concerns weren’t purely superficial: they prized practicality (1) The Lost Art of Dress introduces a new audience to their timeless rules of fashion and beauty—rules which (1) we can certainly learn again. (1) we lack the fashion know-how we need to dress professionally and flatteringly.As historian and expert dressmaker Linda Przybyszewski reveals in The Lost Art of Dress (1) z-novaliterary-possibilities (1)

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Fantastic read that chronicles the way we dress. Starting with how it was way back when to how it has evolved into today. After a slow start, I really got into this book. The depth and scope of this subject is much more than meets the eye as the author unpacks the history. It is very interesting to think about this topic with a complex lens than to merely scoff or disregard old-fashioned views and fashions. To truly understand what went in to dressmaking and why it was so important is a thought that is all but lost on today’s clothes wearer. Hence, the book title.

I really enjoyed the author’s commentary and opinions dispersed throughout the book. With her breadth of knowledge on the subject, she surely has established credibility in this realm. I was especially interested to read that clothes can impart the values of wisdom, sophistication, dignity, and not just for fleeting “hotness.” Worth a read even if you aren’t into fashion. I would like the author to write another book exploring the history of men’s fashion.
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ABQcat | 6 weitere Rezensionen | Jun 19, 2021 |
If you have any interest in fashion, then you have to read this.
If you have any interest in the art of dress making or sewing, then you have to read this.
If you have any interest in historical development, great illustrations, funny and at the same time informative writing, then you have to read this.

This book is like a biography of dress.
 
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katsmiao | 6 weitere Rezensionen | Oct 23, 2015 |
If you have any interest in fashion, then you have to read this.
If you have any interest in the art of dress making or sewing, then you have to read this.
If you have any interest in historical development, great illustrations, funny and at the same time informative writing, then you have to read this.

This book is like a biography of dress.
 
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katsmiao | 6 weitere Rezensionen | Oct 23, 2015 |
If you have any interest in fashion, then you have to read this.
If you have any interest in the art of dress making or sewing, then you have to read this.
If you have any interest in historical development, great illustrations, funny and at the same time informative writing, then you have to read this.

This book is like a biography of dress.
 
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katsmiao | 6 weitere Rezensionen | Oct 23, 2015 |

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