Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson
@eedickinson.bsky.social
Journalist. Author. Editor.
My new book CLAIRE McCARDELL: THE DESIGNER WHO SET WOMEN FREE is out now and available wherever books are sold.
My new book CLAIRE McCARDELL: THE DESIGNER WHO SET WOMEN FREE is out now and available wherever books are sold.
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-...
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-...
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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October 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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-...
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-...
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...
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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September 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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...
It’s every author’s dream to see their book resonate with readers. Thank you @andreaavery.bsky.social 🤍
@eedickinson.bsky.social I just finished your wonderful book Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free. I learned so much and felt so much, which is everything I want from a book. This fellow Marylander thanks you! 🦀👗📚
August 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
It’s every author’s dream to see their book resonate with readers. Thank you @andreaavery.bsky.social 🤍
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No #SundaySentence this week. Just an appreciation for local book stores and local writers. @snugbooksbmore.bsky.social @eedickinson.bsky.social
August 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
No #SundaySentence this week. Just an appreciation for local book stores and local writers. @snugbooksbmore.bsky.social @eedickinson.bsky.social
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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 🗃️🪡
August 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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 🗃️🪡
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…
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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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August 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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-...
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-inner-...
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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
The Design Genius Who Gave American Women Pockets
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July 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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 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.✨”
July 21, 2025 at 4:17 AM
🟣 “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.✨”
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 🤍🤍🎉
July 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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 🤍🤍🎉
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.
Thank you @eedickinson.bsky.social! Everyone read her book!
July 8, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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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Claire McCardell changed fashion forever, Julia Turner writes. The designer advocated for pockets, denim, and ballet flats—revolutionizing clothing for women:
It Has Pockets!
How Claire McCardell changed women’s fashion
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July 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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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"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.
July 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
"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.
This is today! It’s going to be awesome. It’s free and online and we start at 9 am MT / 11:00 am EST
www.okeeffemuseum.org/events/clair...
www.okeeffemuseum.org/events/clair...
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…
www.okeeffemuseum.org
July 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This is today! It’s going to be awesome. It’s free and online and we start at 9 am MT / 11:00 am EST
www.okeeffemuseum.org/events/clair...
www.okeeffemuseum.org/events/clair...
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.
July 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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.
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...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
It Has Pockets!
How Claire McCardell changed women’s fashion
www.theatlantic.com
July 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Claire McCardell in very good company @greedyreads.bsky.social 🤗🥳
It’s been a big few weeks for Baltimore brilliance! Have you checked out these great recent (or upcoming) books by local authors, and if not, what are you waiting for?!
June 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Claire McCardell in very good company @greedyreads.bsky.social 🤗🥳
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...
www.okeeffemuseum.org/events/clair...
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…
www.okeeffemuseum.org
June 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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...
www.okeeffemuseum.org/events/clair...
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Thank you, Claire McCardell! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/b...
The Design Genius Who Gave American Women Pockets
www.nytimes.com
June 19, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Thank you, Claire McCardell! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/b...
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.
Very fun book launch for Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson's new book on Claire McCardell at the MD Center for History & Culture last night. The best part (unpictured) was how well-dressed the crowd was— handmade, vintage, dresses with pockets galore.
June 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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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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...
June 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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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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!
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June 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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...
bookshop.org/p/books/clai...
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Meet the most influential clothier you’ve never heard of. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/c... @simonandschuster.bsky.social @eedickinson.bsky.social #Booksky
June 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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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"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!
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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!
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June 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"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
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!
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🥂 It’s pub day! 🥂
CLAIRE McCARDELL:THE DESIGNER WHO SET WOMEN FREE is out today wherever books are sold.
CLAIRE McCARDELL:THE DESIGNER WHO SET WOMEN FREE is out today wherever books are sold.
June 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
🥂 It’s pub day! 🥂
CLAIRE McCARDELL:THE DESIGNER WHO SET WOMEN FREE is out today wherever books are sold.
CLAIRE McCARDELL:THE DESIGNER WHO SET WOMEN FREE is out today wherever books are sold.