Fashion Journalism
Women’s page content was often described as the four Fs: family, fashion, food and furnishings. (This was often accompanied by another F: frivolous.) I’m examining the original four Fs as a way of rejecting that frivolous label. After all, those four Fs represent important parts of people’s lives and are an important part of history.
The above API book described the voice of authority that a newspaper’s fashion editor held. (It’s newly digitized.) I’m applying that concept to my work on Eleni Epstein, the fashion editor at the Washington Star in the 1940s until the end of the newspaper.
Eleni would have loved covering First Lady Michelle Obama’s fashion choices.
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