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Children’s A Perfect Fit: How Lena “Lane” Bryant Changed the Shape of Fashion Mara Rockliff; Juana Martinez-Neal, illus.
Nonfiction The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive Lucy Adlington
Children’s Parrots, Pugs, and Pixie Dust: A Book About Fashion Designer Judith Leiber Deborah Blumenthal, Masha D’Yans (illus.)
Essay When a Picture Speaks a Thousand Words Earlier this week, Helen Maryles Shankman questioned whether her fictional stories trivialize the Holocaust. She is guest blogging all week as a Visiting Scribe… Helen Maryles Shankman February 4, 2016
Nonfiction Rhinestones, Religion, and the Republic: Fashioning Jewishness in France Kimberly A. Arkin
Nonfiction Dressing Modern Maternity: The Frankfurt Sisters of Dallas and the Page Boy Label Kay Goldman
Nonfiction Franci’s War: A Woman’s Story of Survival Franci Rabinek Epstein (auth.), Helen Epstein (fwd.)
