fashion journalism
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New Eleni Epstein image
I just found this new image of Washington Star fashion editor Eleni Epstein at her desk. It is available here. I am working on a revise-and-resubmit about Eleni and her influence on newspaper fashion reporting.
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Eleni Epstein: Revise & Resubmit
Lance & I got great news this week about our article about Washington Star fashion editor Eleni Epstein. It was a positive and helpful revise-and-resubmit that we should be able to complete in the next few weeks. Fashion journalism often gets marginalized as unimportant because it is “women’s news.” Yet, as we proved, it is an important business with significant social and political meanings – especially in Washington, DC. We spent several visits going through Eleni’s papers at the University of Missouri in 2006 and 2007. It has taken many years to put her story together. We are so pleased to see her story closer to publication.
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American Fashion & Virginia Pope
For Christmas, Lance got me this wonderful book, American Fashion. Included in the book are the names of two significant – but often overlooked – newspaper fashion editors: Eugenia Sheppard (of the New York Herald Tribune) and Virginia Pope (of the New York Times). Above is an article by Pope that I found online. I also found this great article about Pope – fashion editor at the Times from 1933 to 1955. According to the article, her approach for fashion writing never changed: “Keep from getting monotonous, never too effervescent, and most important, it must be accurate.”
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Eleni Epstein & Fashion Journalism
I am working on revising my article about Washington Star Fashion Editor Eleni Epstein. It is a biographical piece that I am reworking and adding a section about other overlooked fashion editors. Fashion is one of the four Fs of the women’s pages. I make the argument that these women are worthy of study for the contribution they made to journalism history. They contributed to the social, economic and textile development of their communities. Because these women covered soft news, rather than hard news they have been largely left out of much of journalism history. They deserve to be included just as food journalism is just now earning respect. In…
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NY Herald Tribune Fashion Editor Eugenia Sheppard
Another significant fashion editor was NY Herald Tribune Fashion Editor Eugenia Sheppard. This is how she is described in the above book, The Paper: “With the introduction in 1956 of her thrice-weekly column, ‘Inside Fashion,’ Sheppard revolutionized the journalism of style by adjusting its focus from inanimate fabric to the people who designed and wore it. … By deciding whom and what to write about she could create a whole new pattern of social commentary.” She is mentioned in several Time Magazine articles about fashion in the 1950s and 1960s. Here is one example These are two of her more well-known quotes:“It’s all terribly cute, but like giving a girl…
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NY Herald Tribune Fashion Editor Eugenia Sheppard
Another significant fashion editor was NY Herald Tribune Fashion Editor Eugenia Sheppard. This is how she is described in the above book, The Paper: “With the introduction in 1956 of her thrice-weekly column, ‘Inside Fashion,’ Sheppard revolutionized the journalism of style by adjusting its focus from inanimate fabric to the people who designed and wore it. … By deciding whom and what to write about she could create a whole new pattern of social commentary.” She is mentioned in several Time Magazine articles about fashion in the 1950s and 1960s. Here is one example These are two of her more well-known quotes:“It’s all terribly cute, but like giving a girl…
