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Mary Brooks Picken : ウィキペディア英語版 | Mary Brooks Picken
Mary Brooks Picken (August 6, 1886 – March 8, 1981) was an American author of 96 books on needlework, sewing, and textile arts. Her ''Fashion Dictionary'', published by Funk and Wagnalls in 1957, is the first dictionary in the English language to be published by a woman. ==Career== She founded the Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences in Scranton, Pennsylvania. An expert on fashion, Picken was an authority on dress, fabric, design, and sewing. She taught "Economics of Fashion" at Columbia University and was one of the five founding directors of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. She was the first woman to be named a trustee of the State University of New York's Fashion Institute of Technology, by Thomas E. Dewey, the Governor of New York, in 1951. She was a member of the National Academy of Sciences National Research Council's Advisory Committee on Women's Clothing, which selected Hattie Carnegie as the designer of the United States Army's women's uniform and provided advice and assistance on all elements of the U.S. Army's women's uniform beginning in 1949.〔(U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum Archives Technical report 68-41-CM "The Army Green Uniform" )〕 Picken was one of the founders of the Fashion Group, now the Fashion Group International, a nonprofit professional association. She also served as chairman of its board.
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