The roaring days of Zora Lily
Call Number
- FICTION SALA (CEN, OSH)
Publication Information
Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Mira, [2023]
Physical Description
408 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary
While preparing The Hollywood Glamour Exhibition at the Smithsonian, costume conservator Sylvia Early discovers another name beneath a label and unearths the story of Zora Hough, a talented young seamstress who left her poverty-stricken life in 1924 Jazz Age Seattle behind to realize her dreams of becoming a designer.
Notes
Includes discussion questions.
Subjects
- Fashion design > Exhibitions > Fiction.
- Costume > Conservation and restoration > Fiction.
- Women dressmakers > Fiction.
- Women tailors > Fiction.
- Costume design > Fiction.
- Motion picture industry > Fiction.
- Dance halls > Fiction.
- Bars (Drinking establishments) > Fiction.
- Ambition > Fiction.
- Seattle (Wash.) > History > 20th century > Fiction.
- Smithsonian Institution > Fiction.