Dr. Przybyszewski’s book, The Lost Art of Dress, explains how Americans learned—and forgot—how to dress in the modern age. It tells the story of the women Przybyszewski called “the Dress Doctors,” a group of academics who, over the course of the first half of the twentieth century, taught Americans what to wear. These included two names with UNL ties.

Dr. Przybyszewski’s talk is being presented in conjunction with the exhibition Modernism and Romanticism: an American Design Approach featuring the work of fashion designers Bill Blass, Geoffrey Beene and Oscar de la Renta, opening on April 20 in the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery.