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.

Today I received the November 1978 issue of Ambiance after finding it on ebay. The magazine includes a column by Washington Star Fashion Editor Eleni Epstein. She was considered a national expert by the 1970s. I am finishing my manuscript on Eleni.

I am revising my article about Washington Star fashion editor Eleni Epstein. She held that position from the 1940s until the newspaper went under. I continue to find more material about her. This week I found a 3-part series from 1949 that she wrote. For the series, Eleni went behind the scenes in the New York fashion industry. This photo of Eleni, pictured with Julie Andrews, can be found in her papers at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection. I have gone through her papers several times.

I have found more references about Eleni Epstein. Some of her papers are at the Smithsonsian. I have ordered copies of her work in the Smithsonian’s “Fashion as Culture” program in 1977. I am working on an article about Eleni career as fashion editor at the Washington Star. She won a Penney-Missouri Award in 1960 for her work. This is my earlier post on Eleni. In this photo, she is interviewing Pierre Cardin. The photo is in her papers at the WHMC.

I’m revising an article on Washington Star fashion editor Eleni Epstein. She won a Penney-Missouri award for her coverage, which took a business and sociological approach to journalism. This is my earlier post on Eleni. The Paris photo is among her papers at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection. I just came across audio of one of Eleni’s interviews which is also found in her papers at the WHMC. Click below to listen:http://www.archive.org/details/EleniEpsteinInterview