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Young Originals

Rebecca Jumper Matheson
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      In the early 1940s, American designer Emily Wilkens went beyond her previous experience in children's wear to create costumes for two teenage characters in a Broadway play. Recognizing the growing importance of the teenager in American culture, she soon launched Emily Wilkens Young Originals, the first designer label specializing in upscale, fashionable clothing for teenage girls. Within the space of a few years, Wilkens skyrocketed from obscurity to national recognition, yet even today many fashion insiders would not recognize her name.Fashion historian Rebecca Jumper Matheson explores intertwining stories of female agency through the history of Wilkens and her teenage clientele. Wilkens retained both artistic and business control over her label in an era when most American ready-to-wear designers were anonymous employees of manufacturers. Wilkens parleyed her relative youth into a big-sister image which, like her dresses themselves, allowed her to mediate between the concerns of her teenage clients and their parents. Contrary to popular wisdom, Wilkens’s designs declared that even a teenager could be fashionable. In doing so, Wilkens laid the foundation for the seismic shift that would occur later in the twentieth century, when youth became the fashionable ideal.Young Originals traces Wilkens’s career from fashion illustrator in the 1930s to spa and beauty expert in the 1980s, emphasizing her consistent ideal of healthy, youthful beauty.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Rebecca Jumper Matheson EAN: 9780896729247 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 353 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Texas Tech Press,U.S. DATE PUBLISHED: 2015-06-15 CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, DESIGN / Fashion & Accessories, DESIGN / Textile & Costume WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      History of art, Fashion and textile design, Biography and non-fiction prose, Cultural studies: dress and society, Hospitality and service industries

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      Rebecca Jumper Matheson is a former research assistant at The Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and has taught at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She is the author of The Sunbonnet: An American Icon in Texas (TTUP, 2009). She lives in New York City, USA.
      In the early 1940s, American designer Emily Wilkens went beyond her previous experience in children's wear to create costumes for two teenage characters in a Broadway play. Recognizing the growing importance of the teenager in American culture, she soon launched Emily Wilkens Young Originals, the first designer label specializing in upscale, fashionable clothing for teenage girls. Within the space of a few years, Wilkens skyrocketed from obscurity to national recognition, yet even today many fashion insiders would not recognize her name.Fashion historian Rebecca Jumper Matheson explores intertwining stories of female agency through the history of Wilkens and her teenage clientele. Wilkens retained both artistic and business control over her label in an era when most American ready-to-wear designers were anonymous employees of manufacturers. Wilkens parleyed her relative youth into a big-sister image which, like her dresses themselves, allowed her to mediate between the concerns of her teenage clients and their parents. Contrary to popular wisdom, Wilkens’s designs declared that even a teenager could be fashionable. In doing so, Wilkens laid the foundation for the seismic shift that would occur later in the twentieth century, when youth became the fashionable ideal.Young Originals traces Wilkens’s career from fashion illustrator in the 1930s to spa and beauty expert in the 1980s, emphasizing her consistent ideal of healthy, youthful beauty.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Rebecca Jumper Matheson EAN: 9780896729247 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 353 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Texas Tech Press,U.S. DATE PUBLISHED: 2015-06-15 CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, DESIGN / Fashion & Accessories, DESIGN / Textile & Costume WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      History of art, Fashion and textile design, Biography and non-fiction prose, Cultural studies: dress and society, Hospitality and service industries

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      Rebecca Jumper Matheson is a former research assistant at The Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and has taught at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She is the author of The Sunbonnet: An American Icon in Texas (TTUP, 2009). She lives in New York City, USA.

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