{"product_id":"9780465066865","title":"The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A tribute to a time when style—and maybe even life—felt more straightforward, and however arbitrary, there were definitive answers.\" —Sadie Stein, \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Art of Dress\u003c\/i\u003e, historian and dressmaker Linda Przybyszewski reveals that this wasn't always true.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the first half of the twentieth century, a remarkable group of women—the so-called Dress Doctors—taught American women that knowledge, not money, was key to a beautiful wardrobe. They empowered women to design, make, and choose clothing for both the workplace and the home. Armed with the Dress Doctors' simple design principles—harmony, proportion, balance, rhythm, emphasis—modern American women from all classes learned to dress for all occasions in ways that made them confident, engaged members of society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA captivating and beautifully illustrated look at the world of the Dress Doctors, \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Art of Dress\u003c\/i\u003e introduces a new audience to their timeless rules of fashion and beauty—rules which, with a little help, we can certainly learn again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50108125610224,"sku":"9780465066865","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780465066865","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}