<DIV>From the sidewalk to the catwalk, there’s no shortage of proof that Americans have lost the ability to dress well. It’s not that we dress poorly on purpose; instead, we lack the fashion know-how we need to dress professionally, appropriately, and flatteringly. As historian and expert dressmaker Linda Przybyszewski reveals in <I>The Lost Art of Dress</I>, it wasn’t always this way. In the first half of the twentieth century, a remarkable group of women?the so-called Dress Doctors?taught Americans how to dress artfully, and spearheaded a nationwide movement toward beautiful, economical, and egalitarian fashion. Armed with the Dress Doctors’ simple design principles, modern American women from all social and economic classes could learn to dress in a way that made them confident, engaged members of society.<BR><BR>A captivating and beautifully-illustrated look at the world of the Dress Doctors, <I>The Lost Art of Dress</I> introduces readers to their timeless rules about beauty and shows that, with a little help, we can learn them again.<br></DIV>