What Shall I Wear?
A Nonfiction book. Such fun! Timeless fashion insights and tips from the legendary mid-century designer.
The revolutionary fashion designer credited with pioneering the “The American Look,” Claire McCardell designed for the emerging active lifestyle of women in the 1940s and 50s. She was the originator of mix-and-match separates, pedal-pushers, bareback summer dresses, strapless swimsuits, and feminine denim fashion, and started the trend for ballet flats—a signature Audrey Hepburn look—as a wartime leather-rationing measure. McCardell's fashions were taken up by working women and high society alike. The early episodes of Madmen are packed with fashion showing Claire McCardell's influence. On vintage fashion blogs and in books like Slim Aarons's Once Upon A Time, there are wonderful photographs from the period...
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- Pages: 192 pages
- ISBN: 9781585679706 / 0
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Such fun! Timeless fashion insights and tips from the legendary mid-century designer. Enjoyable in many ways as a time capsule of how people talked about fashion at a specific point of time. Some of the advice was timeless and some of it became woefully out of date almost immediately after this was published. Finding your own style regardless of trends - yup... that's still solid. Picking footwear to please your husband... Loved this reprint of a 1956 book http://bookaweekwithjen.blogspot.com/...
