The Hundred Dresses by Erin McKean

Author:Erin McKean
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781472535856
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-11-22T16:00:00+00:00

worn by: Diana Vreeland (in a photograph by Richard Avedon), Elizabeth Taylor (as Flora “Sissy” Goforth in the 1968 film Boom!), Lindsay Lohan.

designers: Almost every designer has been inspired by the Kimono, including Halston, John Galliano, Yves Saint Laurent, Proenza Schouler, Anna Sui, and others—but not Jason Wu, who said in 2008 that he was more inspired by modern Japan: “Samurais and geishas were a long time ago.”

the laura ingalls wilder

the laura ingalls wilder dress (the Laura, for short) is any prairie- or frontier-style dress, usually high-necked and long-sleeved with a full, ankle-length skirt, and often made in calico with a floral pattern.

Although the Laura dress is not often worn today (at least, not worn by people who aren’t in plural marriages), everyone who grew up on Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books still has a fondness for them, and for Wilder’s meticulous descriptions of them. In Little House on the Prairie, Wilder describes the dress Laura and Ma made for Mary to wear at her school for the blind:

It was brown cashmere, lined with brown cambric. Small brown buttons buttoned it down the front, and on either side of the buttons and around the bottom Ma had trimmed it with a narrow, shirred strip of brown-and-blue plaid, with red threads and golden threads running through it. A high collar of the plaid was sewed on, and Ma held in her hand a gathered length of white machine-made lace. The lace was to be fitted inside the collar, so that it would fall a little over the top.

The Laura dress is a frontier dress in more ways than one—while her whole family was working to make a living and build a life from their (often inhospitable) homesteading claims, Laura and her mother and sisters were also wresting beauty and fashion from similarly unbroken ground. It didn’t matter whether they were living in a dugout or a tarpaper shack; Ma would make sure the girls had clean dresses and neatly braided hair. Their manners would always be closer to “back East” than their homes would ever be again.

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