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The Moth Radio Hour: All Dressed Up

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The Little Pioneers of American Fashion

"I came to New York after I graduated with the idea of being an actress but there again I was looming over the leading men and I was always to something once I was too dark for a part then I was too light for a part," she says. "We had been working in churches most of us before we were able to work on Seventh Avenue and make the magazines so we had only our own exuberance when we hit the stage there was us donnish to see"

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