"Lilly Daché: Talking Through My Hats" 1946 DACHÉ, Lilly
$500
DACHÉ, Lilly
LEWIS, Dorothy Roe [edited by]
[265] pp.
Coward-McCann, Inc.
1946
8 3/8" x 5 7/8"
Designed by Robert Josephy
The memoirs of Lilly Daché, the French-born American milliner. Lilly Daché dominated the fashionable hat scene during the 1930s and '40s. She dressed socialites, fashion models and movie stars with her couture creations. In her autobiography, written in collaboration with Dorothy Roe Lewis, she discusses her career, her style and the vagaries of being a business owner in the fashion world.
Lilly Daché. Edited by Dorothy Roe Lewis. Coward McCann, Inc. New York. 1946. First edition. Hardback, octavo; black cloth-bound boards with decorative pink and gilt titles to front board and spine, green silk covered padded slipcase with gilt Daché signature printed to spine. vi, 265 pages. Portrait photographic frontispiece. English. 220 x 155mm. 0.55kg.
Very good, in fair slipcase; slight wear to boards with a couple of small marks, slight reading wear to pages, previous owner's ink signature to endpaper; significant fading to silk slipcase, some wear and rubbing to edges, small stain to corner.