What Shall I Wear? [Signed]
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[Signed] McCardell, Claire. What Shall I Wear? The What, Where, When, and How Much of Fashion. First Edition. 1956. Book and dust jacket are both in good plus condition—pages show moderate age, and jacket has a 1⁄2-inch chip to the lower spine. Book is signed “Claire McCardell.”
Described as “master of the line, never the slave of the sequin” by department store magnate Stanley Marcus, Claire McCardell was one of the first on Seventh Avenue to forget Paris. She was instrumental in creating the American Look. In this sartorial primer, she says to disregard “labels and look for lines” but never forget that fashion is “fickle and silly and wonderful and unpredictable.” Even unsigned copies are uncommon.
Described as “master of the line, never the slave of the sequin” by department store magnate Stanley Marcus, Claire McCardell was one of the first on Seventh Avenue to forget Paris. She was instrumental in creating the American Look. In this sartorial primer, she says to disregard “labels and look for lines” but never forget that fashion is “fickle and silly and wonderful and unpredictable.” Even unsigned copies are uncommon.
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