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RBEbersole @rbebersole.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

A fascinating and tenacious subject—Claire McCardell + a serious researcher and wonderful writer—Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson = a sensational biography. Totally compelling 💯

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Brynn Devereaux @brynndevereaux.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

“Vreeland was an exclamation mark of a woman: tall, angular, lavishly dressed, and smitten with the world.” #SundaySentence, “Claire McCardell” by Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I got to talk about my favorite designer with my favorite podcaster. 🥂

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

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: asuevents.asu.edu/event/guest-...

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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 · 12/09/2025

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...

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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 · 17/08/2025

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

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Brynn Devereaux @brynndevereaux.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

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

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

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 · 17/08/2025

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… www.eventbrite.com/e/the-inner-...

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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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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

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

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The Design Genius Who Gave American Women Pockets

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May Mauveine @maymauveine.com · 21/07/2025

🟣 “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 · 20/07/2025

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 · 08/07/2025

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.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 03/07/2025

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

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It Has Pockets!

How Claire McCardell changed women’s fashion

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Lisa Noble @nobleknits2.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

"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 · 01/07/2025

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 · 01/07/2025

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...

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It Has Pockets!

How Claire McCardell changed women’s fashion

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

The Claire McCardell book tour continues on Wed.July 2 with a very special virtual event for the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. O’Keeffe exemplified refined, modern style and Claire McCardell was one of her favorite designers. Join me to learn why! (It’s free!) www.okeeffemuseum.org/events/clair...

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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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Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Thank you, Claire McCardell! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/b...

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The Design Genius Who Gave American Women Pockets

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

My book launch for CLAIRE McCARDELL: THE DESIGNER WHO SET WOMEN FREE was last week and the crowd brought their A game. It was awesome.

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Ms. Yingling @msyingling.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

We can thank Claire McCardell for pockets in women's clothing, as well as hoods. Read Dickinson's Simon and Schuster biography of this influential 20th century designer. msyinglingreads.blogspot.com/2025/06/mmgm...

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

This is my platonic ideal of a non-fiction book: well written, interesting subject, well sourced, and left me inspired to learn more! Thank you @eedickinson.bsky.social for this great book! bookshop.org/p/books/clai...

Screenshot of an audiobook play screen for the audiobook Claire McCardell: the designer who set women free by Elizabeth Evits Dickinson. The book cover is pink and white text over a black and white photo of a woman in white dress slouching in a chair.

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Washington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Meet the most influential clothier you’ve never heard of. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/c... @simonandschuster.bsky.social @eedickinson.bsky.social #Booksky

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Jack El-Hai @jackelhai.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

"She shattered cultural norms." Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @eedickinson.bsky.social & @simonandschuster.bsky.social! Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

🥂 It’s pub day! 🥂 CLAIRE McCARDELL:THE DESIGNER WHO SET WOMEN FREE is out today wherever books are sold.

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The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Your first look at this week's 20% off new release book picks, four fiction, four nonfiction. You don't have to support Jeff Bezos to get discounts on hot new books. Come to us: theliteratelizard.com/front-page-b... Titles/authors in alt-text. Authors and publishers on Bluesky in comment 🧵 #Booksky

Our four 20% off new release fiction picks of the week, discounted through June 28th:
- These Heathens: A Novel, by Mia McKenzie
- The Uproar: A Novel, by Karim Dimechkie
- Weepers: A Novel, by Peter Mendelsund
- Fox: A Novel, by Joyce Carol Oates

Our four 20% off new release nonfiction picks of the week, discounted through June 28th:
- Wildfire Days: A Woman, a Hotshot Crew, and the Burning American West, by Kelly Ramsey
- Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet, by Kate Marvel
- The Cost of Being Undocumented: One Woman's Reckoning with America's Inhumane Math, by Alix Dick and Antero Garcia
- Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free, by Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

W Magazine picks CLAIRE McCARDELL THE DESIGNER WHO SET WOMEN FREE as a must-read book of summer 🎉🌞 My book comes out on June 17, but you can pre-order wherever books are sold.

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I’m coming to New York June 12! Attendees of this event will have access to my book — which the New York Times and Oprah Daily call a must read — 5 days before it officially launches. See you there!

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julieinstitches.bsky.social @julieinstitches.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I’ve pre-ordered, excited to find out more about this amazing designer. Meanwhile, here are a couple of ready-to-wear examples (L 1955, R c1948) via Fondation Azzedine Alaia. Photos my own (2023).

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I’ve researched women’s lives in physical and digital archives for years, and to this day I sometimes forget that you cannot search by their names, you have to use their husband’s name and tack a “Mrs.” on, and it enrages me anew every time.

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Inside the archives and behind the scenes of the writing of my new biography on midcentury fashion designer Claire McCardell. A lovely film made by Baltimore’s own Joe Rubino. CLAIRE McCARDELL: THE DESIGNER WHO SET WOMEN FREE comes out in two months! youtu.be/BISKJOBsdKo?...

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Behind the Scenes of Writing Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free

YouTube video by Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Kirkus Reviews just gave a starred review to my new book CLAIRE McCARDELL: THE DESIGNER WHO SET WOMEN FREE ✨✨ Out June 17 from Simon & Schuster

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CLAIRE MCCARDELL | Kirkus Reviews

The early-20th-century woman designer who revolutionized fashion—then disappeared.

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

It’s true. This happened to me. Tertulia stole my name, face, and social media posts about books and my family, and they created a page purportedly written *by me* where I “recommended” books and products to buy. Without my knowledge. I only discovered it existed bc I have an alert for my name.

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Last night Neko Case told a room of us in DC that she’s “Broke as fuck.” One of the most prolific and talented musicians of our generation said this. People were stunned. Then she explained how Spotify works. Capitalism never cared for artists and now it’s near impossible to make a living as one.

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Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson @eedickinson.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I threw my laptop out an open window only to discover that Copilot had installed itself onto my fountain pen and Leuchtturm notebook.

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