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The Fine Arts Of Working-Class Immigrant Women’s Fashion

VISUAL Posted: December 16, 2018 1:00 pm

While the men were at synagogue, the women were finding community elsewhere. “The dresses my grandmother sold were often showy, long, filmy, shiny concoctions, with sequined necklines and lace sleeves. They were priced for working-class people with fairy-tale aspirations, and they came in nylon and sateen and other cheaper fabrics; the skirts often swirled, and the waists had big stiff bows.” – The New York Times

VISUAL Published: 12.15.18

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 12.15.18

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