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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social · 7d

West Coast Claire McCardell lovers I'm coming to you!

Join me on Thurs. Oct. 23 at 7:00 pm at the ASU FIDM Museum in Los Angeles. The museum has an incredible collection of McCardell clothes, and this promises to be a special night. Register at the link below:
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Guest Lecture and Book Signing with Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, author of Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free | ASU Events

Join the ASU FIDM Museum and Friends of Fashion for an evening with author Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, who will discuss the life and legacy of American fashion designer Claire McCardell.Following the ...

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social · Sep 12

How Do You Turn an Article Into a Book? I talked to @narrativelyacademy.bsky.social about how my biography on Claire McCardell began as a feature story in the Washington Post Magazine. This is for my fellow writing craft nerds! www.narrativelyacademy.com/p/how-do-you...

How Do You Turn an Article Into a Book?

Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson wrote a Washington Post piece about the riveting history of the most influential fashion designer you’ve never heard of—then realized she had something more on her hands.

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social · Aug 17

It’s every author’s dream to see their book resonate with readers. Thank you @andreaavery.bsky.social 🤍

Andrea Avery @andreaavery.bsky.social · Aug 17

@eedickinson.bsky.social I just finished your wonderful book Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free. I learned so much and felt so much, which is everything I want from a book. This fellow Marylander thanks you! 🦀👗📚

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social · Aug 17

😭😭 This made my week! Thank you for reading the book, and thank you for letting me know how it made you feel. This is every author’s dream to see their book resonate. 🤍🩷

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Brynn Devereaux @brynndevereaux.bsky.social · Aug 17

No #SundaySentence this week. Just an appreciation for local book stores and local writers. @snugbooksbmore.bsky.social @eedickinson.bsky.social

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social · Aug 17

I love this so much! Thank you!

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · Aug 15

Beautiful mid century print helps to date this Claire McCardell dress to the early #1950s. Its shawl style scarf tucks into the broad black belt, cinched in with a narrow buckle #fidmmuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A short sleeved red cotton dress with full skirt. It has a printed motif in a fifties style and a shawl style scarf collar that tucks into a wide black leather belt. A narrower strip of leather form the buckle that fastens it

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social · Aug 17

DC! I’m coming to you this Tuesday! I’ll be reading from my critically lauded new book CLAIRE McCARDELL: THE DESIGNER WHO SET WOMEN FREE and I may even have a handful of surprise give-aways…

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The Inner Loop August Reading

Join us at Shaw's Tavern featuring Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson alongside 9 local writers in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry!

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thank you Karrie!!

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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · Jul 21

Thought about reading the new William Buckley bio but think I will read this bio of Claire McCardell instead. #pocketsFTW 📚https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/books/review/elizabeth-evitts-dickinson-claire-mccardell.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YE8.XVho.6qEqoWq8oE6A&smid=url-share

The Design Genius Who Gave American Women Pockets

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social · Jul 31

Hooray!!

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social · Jul 23

🎉🎉

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May Mauveine @maymauveine.com · Jul 21

🟣 “The press dubbed Dior’s collection the “New Look.” To McCardell, though, it was a return to the old ways of manipulating a woman’s body. If you were cinched into a corset, unable to breathe, without pockets, needing help to get dressed, you were a showpiece ✨not an autonomous individual.✨”

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social · Jul 20

Claire McCardell is a cover girl once again! My biography about the most important designer you’ve likely never heard of has made the cover of today’s @nytimes.com Book Review 🤍🤍🎉

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social · Jul 8

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Jamie Kate 🐈‍⬛ @jamiekates.bsky.social · Jun 28

Claire McCardell is my new favorite person

(From @annehelen.bsky.social's Culture Study)

The Dress Designer Who Gave Women Pockets — And So Much More

The power of designing clothes women actually need

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social · Jul 8

Why McCardell vs. Dior? Claire McCardell became the “gal who defied Dior” according to writer Betty Friedan (yes, THAT Friedan) and it’s because McCardell gave women elegant comfort over the corseted wasp-waist of the New Look. Read all about it in Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free.

Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · Jul 8

Thank you @eedickinson.bsky.social! Everyone read her book!

A tote bag that says McCardell vs Dior in red text.

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social · Jul 8

It made it! A little wrinkled but nothing this East Coast humidity won’t fix 😉

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Jul 3

Claire McCardell changed fashion forever, Julia Turner writes. The designer advocated for pockets, denim, and ballet flats—revolutionizing clothing for women:

It Has Pockets!

How Claire McCardell changed women’s fashion

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social · Jul 2

Agreed. And I address that in my book. Much of her book was ghostwritten.

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social · Jul 2

Thank you for joining! I loved talking about McCardell and O’Keeffe

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Lisa Noble @nobleknits2.bsky.social · Jul 2

"fashion is a purveyor of cultural truth" : @eedickinson.bsky.social noting the turn back to Dior's "New Look" in modern fashion. There is a move back to controlling women's bodies through fashion.

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social · Jul 2

This is today! It’s going to be awesome. It’s free and online and we start at 9 am MT / 11:00 am EST

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Mornings with O'Keeffe: Claire McCardell, Georgia O’Keeffe, and the Hidden History of Fashion Design - The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

When Georgia O’Keeffe took a rafting trip through Glen Canyon in 1961, it was a Claire McCardell dress that she wore. O’Keeffe owned several McCardell…

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social · Jul 1

A woman who read my book emailed me to say: "I've always loved Claire McCardell, I just didn't know it." It's so true—much of what we wear today has the DNA of McCardell's ingenious designs.

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social · Jul 1

Julia Turner wrote a thought-provoking review of my book Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free for @theatlantic.com. McCardell "had a core conviction, and she never abandoned it:Women deserve to be comfortable—in their clothes, and in the world." Amen!
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

It Has Pockets!

How Claire McCardell changed women’s fashion

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social · Jun 30

Claire McCardell in very good company @greedyreads.bsky.social 🤗🥳

Greedy Reads @greedyreads.bsky.social · Jun 30

It’s been a big few weeks for Baltimore brilliance! Have you checked out these great recent (or upcoming) books by local authors, and if not, what are you waiting for?!

Four books lined up on the end of a bookstore table:
✨Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free by Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson
✨✨No Sense in Wishing by Lawrence Burney (out July 8 but available for preorder now!)
✨✨✨Murder Takes a Vacation by Laura Lippman
✨✨✨✨Earthly Materials by Cutter Wood

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