Now as for the second book The Lost Art of Dress, I can't wait to start that because the world has changed and people no longer dress up like they used to. Sometimes, when I watch some of those retro shows, I see the characters dressed up just to go to the movies or when they're going to be traveling. I find that interesting because it's not that we as a society have let ourselves go it's that the world is a more casual place than it once was. So, I think reading this will be interesting.
Book: Gilbert and the Scepter of Silence by Dahlia Huh and Sunmee Huh with illustrations by Christopher Huh
Description:
Gilbert has never taken a bath — only showers.
He is a Mermid, but has been hidden away on land for eleven years. When he returns underwater, he stumbles upon the terrifying truth: that others like him are being persecuted — and no one knows by whom. He befriends a Leviathan, gets swallowed by a whale, and discovers the horrible secret in the original Statue of Liberty — but the danger to both worlds grows greater with every day that passes. Guided by a mysterious age-old text, Gilbert unravels an incredible destiny that has been waiting for him... but the pieces have fallen into the wrong hands. Gilbert just has one of those faces that you can't remember even if you tried. He might as well not exist — but good thing he does.
Book: The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish by Linda Przybyszewski
Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review
Publication: April 29, 2014
Description:
As a glance down any street in America quickly reveals, American women have forgotten how to dress. We chase fads, choose inappropriate materials and unattractive cuts, and waste energy tottering in heels when we could be moving gracefully. Quite simply, 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, it wasn’t always like this. In the first half of the twentieth century, a remarkable group of women—the so-called Dress Doctors—taught American women how to stretch each yard of fabric and dress well on a budget. Knowledge not money, they insisted, is the key to timeless fashion. Based in Home Economics departments across the country, the Dress Doctors offered advice on radio shows, at women’s clubs, and in magazines. Millions of young girls read their books in school and at 4-H clothing clubs. As Przybyszewski shows, the Dress Doctors’ concerns weren’t purely superficial: they prized practicality, 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 principles—harmony, proportion, balance, rhythm, emphasis—modern American women from all classes could learn to dress for all occasions in a way that made them confident, engaged members of society.
A captivating and beautifully-illustrated look at the world of the Dress Doctors, The Lost Art of Dress introduces a new audience to their timeless rules of fashion and beauty—rules which, with a little help, we can certainly learn again.
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