Looking for Jackie: American Fashion Icons

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Summary: fascinating & informative
Review: After reading this book, I feel that I have a better understanding of the complexities surrounding the female icon, whether it be modern,victorian, or beyond. Craughwell-Varda tapped into a well that until now, I did not appreciate. A wonderful book, with spectacular illustrations.

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Summary: A Wonderful Book!
Review: Looking for Jackie is a really great book!!! It shows some of America's biggest icons in fashion history. It shows some of the First Ladys including Jackie O. It also includes some of Hollywood's biggest names! I thought Craughwell-Varda did a wonderful job on this book. A must have for anyone who enjoys looking at historic fashion!

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Summary: fascinating & informative
Review: Ms.Varda's book is one of the most beautiful books on fashion I've ever beheld. The essays on women, from Betsy Bonaparte to Alice Roosevelt, are fascinating and elegantly written. The illustrations are gorgeous(full-page facsimiles of paintings,wonderful photographs).This would make a fantastic gift for anyone interested in women's studies, as well as fashion.

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Summary: JACKIE? O NO! WHAT A TERRIBLE FIT THIS TOME IS
Review: O! Can't poor Jackie O ever finally rest in peace? Now comes author Kathleen Caughwell-Varda's photo-packed coffeetable book that spends too many pages "looking" for the women who, like Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis, broke barriers and influenced their eras, from the 1800s to the present. The relatively unknown are here (Julia Gardiner Tyler, Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte) as well as the essentials (Crawford, Swanson, Kelly.) Yawning yet? Save the money and go buy a pillbox hat.

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Summary: JACKIE? O NO! WHAT A TERRIBLE FIT THIS TOME IS
Review: O! Can't poor Jackie O ever finally rest in peace? Now comes author Kathleen Caughwell-Varda's photo-packed coffeetable book that spends too many pages "looking" for the women who, like Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis, broke barriers and influenced their eras, from the 1800s to the present. The relatively unknown are here (Julia Gardiner Tyler, Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte) as well as the essentials (Crawford, Swanson, Kelly.) Yawning yet? Save the money and go buy a pillbox hat.

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Summary: Hip look at the history of chic in the U.S.
Review: Using glamorous photos, paintings, letters and anecdotes, Craughwell-Varda has turned out a winner of a book on American fashion icons: Jackie, Dolley Madison, the Duchess of Windsor. The author deftly mixes juicy details-Julia Gardener Tyler was a shopaholic-with intellectual discourse on how the way these women dressed changed politics, movies and fashion. A great gift for your favorite fashionista, and a coffee-table book that shows brains as well as beauties.