Category: fashion
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Liz Claiborne was a working woman who championed the middle-class woman
Claiborne set out to reach women entering the job market en mass — not the executive roles (women hadn’t gotten there yet), but the cubicle dwellers, the saleswomen, and yes, the journalists.
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Herbert Kasper helped launch my journalism career
Kasper was the first suit I ever purchased, in 1987, as a young journalist heading to a week-long conference at the prestigious Poynter Institute in Tampa.
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Meet Charleston Audrey Hepburn, via my first estate sale
Audrey is the name I gave the tiny woman whose estate sale clothes reminded me of actress Audrey Hepburn.
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Milliner Fred heeded the call for women then for Leslie Fay
In 1942, milliner Fred Pomerantz was hired by the U.S. government to make uniforms for women during World War II.
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Irene Kasmer’s hip-huggers vision honored women’s rights
Irene was 21 when she left Czechoslovakia for an escape aboard the Queen Mary — family had died in the Holocaust and she was determined to get to the land of the free.
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NJ purse company empowered women
Two of the founders, Ed and Ludwig Kaphan, came to America in 1939 to escape Nazi Germany. They arrived with little money but a lot of determination and had their handbag business up and running in New Jersey within several years.
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I’m in love with Tamotsu and women in charge of their world
Tamotsu Toda fell in love with America in the 1960s on a visit to New York after graduating from a Toyko design school. I’ve come across so many people in my fashion studies who immigrated to the United States and made it a better place. He was certainly one of those blessings.
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How I got here: An attic purge and a love for the skeletons and dresses in your closet
I started diving into friends’ ancestry looking for stories and greater insight into history. But I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to pay me to do it. In fact, most thought I was creepy when I’d send them an old photo I had found of their grandpa or great aunt once removed.
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