American ingenuity sportswear, 1930s-1970s Richard Martin ; photographs by Karin L. Willis

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Richard (Richard Harrison)

Contributor:

Willis, Karin L., photographer.

Costume Institute (New York, N.Y.), host institution.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Costume Institute (New York, N.Y.)--Exhibitions.

Costume Institute (New York, N.Y.).

Sport clothes--United States--History--20th century--Exhibitions.

Sport clothes.

Women fashion designers--United States--Exhibitions.

Women fashion designers.

United States.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource (96 pages) illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

New York Metropolitan Museum of Art [1998]

Summary:

"Beginning in the early 1930s, American designer sportswear came into its own, later becoming a major force in fashion that continued into the 1990s to influence the way women dress. Designers such as Bonnie Cashin, Tina Leser, Vera Maxwell, Claire McCardell, Clare Potter, and Emily Wilkens initiated a new standard of dressing, one that is right for the lifestyle of the modern woman and that is purely American in its practicality, simplicity, and democratic elements ... Richard Martin, Curator of The Costume Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, has brought these designers together again, and his text both examines their position and import as a historical group and discusses their individual accomplishments. His introduction includes period photographs of models wearing the clothes and a discussion of the history of the group, which is integrally related to The Museum of Costume Art in New York City ... The body of this book is divided into five sections, which provide a view of the individual fashions along with discussions of the characteristics and techniques of a number of the innovators of American sportswear"--From publisher's description

Contents:

Foreword / Philippe de Montebello

Introduction

Wrapping and tying

Latching

Stowing

Harmonizing

Adapting

Profiles of designers

Selected bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index of designers

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition at the Costume Institute, New York, April 2 to August 16, 1998

Title from PDF title page (viewed February 20, 2013)

Includes bibliographical references (page 94) and index

Other Format:

Print version Martin, Richard (Richard Harrison). American ingenuity

ISBN:

0870998633

9780870998638

OCLC:

828096341