The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish by Linda Przybyszewski
~post by Katie P.
Linda Przybyszewski is worried about American women. More specifically, what they’re wearing. It’s one thing for women to have largely lost the desire or skills to make their own clothes, but it’s another, immeasurably more tragic one that they have also, she argues, lost their sense of style. The Lost Art of Dress is, as the author has implied in the title of her new book, an endangered species.
In the first two decades of the 20th century, as Przybyszewski outlines, women who wanted to study chemistry, nutrition science, architecture, design, and engineering were being lumped together and dubbed “Home Economists,” an umbrella discipline that offered these women the chance to continue at least some of their desired work, while limiting their scope of influence to inside the home. (The author…
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