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Wear and tear : the threads of my life / Tracy Tynan.

Title: Wear and tear : the threads of my life / Tracy Tynan.
Author: Tynan, Tracy
Publication: New York : Scribner, [2016]

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xii, 302 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"The memoirs of a celebrity costume designer describe her upbringing in the fashionable celebrity circles of her literary parents, her family's artistic but traumatizing approaches to shopping and how the fashion-savvy perspectives of her early years shaped her relationships and career, "--NoveList.

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Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.

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Contents

The lemon-yellow underpants -- My mother's fur coat -- The pearl necklace -- The pale blue chemise -- School uniforms: purple, blue, and none -- The brown wellington boots -- Bikinis and water skis -- The apple-green shoes -- The white cotton circle-stitched torpedo bra -- White jeans and white denim jacket -- My mother's Pucci dress -- The gold flapper dress -- The silver chain and the poncho -- Sexcapades and the plain pinafores -- Twenty-one in Ossie Clark -- The one-size-fits-all clothing that fits in a bag -- Pierrot -- The brown fedora and the gold lamé jeans -- The leisure suit and Guayabera years -- Black is black: memorials 1, 2, and 3 -- The diaries and the gold watch -- The chitenge -- The T-shirt wedding dress -- Breathless beginnings: the shirt-jac -- Freebies, '50s glamour, and funky smells -- The maroon plaid dress -- It helps to be married to the costume designer: the crepe de chine wedding dress -- Great balls of fire! The faux-leopard-trim suit -- The pink knitted cap -- The striped silk socks -- The pink quartz heart -- The Muji T-shirt -- The ultimate blended family: more wedding attire -- The black trench coat -- Glamour togs -- Comfort with style.

ISBN

9781501123689
1501123688
9781501123696
1501123696
9781501123702 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015031108

OCLC

919068262

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Harvard Library