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Product Identifiers
PublisherGoose River Press
ISBN-101597131342
ISBN-139781597131346
eBay Product ID (ePID)144031632
Product Key Features
Book TitleMy Mother's Dressing Room
Number of Pages202 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicBeauty & Grooming, Fashion & Accessories, Personal Memoirs, Subjects & Themes / Fashion
Publication Year2012
GenreDesign, Health & Fitness, Photography, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorSiobhan Mcdonough
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight8.5 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2012-948488
SynopsisMy Mother's Dressing Room is a book about clothes and the stories ours can tell. Clothes are the threads of our lives, in ways well beyond their function to cover our naked selves. They tie a mother to a daughter, the past to the present, one place to another. The world's most cherished designer labels from recent decades do more than define their time: They unlock memories, and readers of this book who rummage through their own wardrobes and mothballed boxes will see their collections with new eyes. Readers will also learn something about being ferociously fashionable and frugal at once. In My Mother's Dressing Room, Siobhan "Bunny" McDonough breaks her own fashion rule: Keep your secrets. She tells hers. A journalist, hunter of vintage clothes and outdoors lover, McDonough offers tips for the shopper and the dresser in a narrative driven by a daughter's relationship with her mother. It's a relationship grounded for over four decades in an elegant dressing room that served as a place to share confidences, take safe haven from the outside world and experience the adventures of fashion. It's a journey of the senses that begins in a stroller rolling through Lord & Taylor, where the salesladies' bangles clanked against glass counter tops as they wrote out receipts in bulging sales books, and carries on to poignant moments still being made in that room today.
