Valerie Steele
Valerie Steele is chief curator at the Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York.
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Chapter 7. Women Fashioning American Fashion
Valerie Steele
Description: Women Designers in the USA, 1900–2000: Diversity and Difference
Women Designers in the USA, 1900–2000: Diversity and Difference
THE EARLY HISTORY OF WOMEN FASHION DESIGNERS in the United States is poorly documented, because for many years most American “designers” were dressmakers who left little trace in the historical record. In...
Author
Valerie Steele
PublisherBard Graduate Center
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2000 The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture
Related print edition pages: pp.185-199
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00208.005
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20278
Chapter subject tags:Women fashion designersFashion--United States--History--20th centuryReady-to-wear clothing industrySport clothes for womenFashion design