PositiveThe Washington PostCharming ... Satow could have focused on the stores alone, with their array of delightful bygone details. But by following Odlum, Shaver and Stutz, she posits that women, in shaping retail, invented the American fashion industry ... What Satow doesn’t explore, though her writing is haunted by the topic like a well-dressed ghost, is the decline in American fashion.
Mac Griswold
PositiveBookForumGriswold writes with close enough range that she quotes from a number of Mellon’s private writings, many of which were drafted with a memoir in mind, but enough distance to tell us, for example, that Mellon’s wardrobe was \"sometimes admirable, sometimes perilously close to dowdy\".
