American Ingenuity: Sportswear, 1930s–1970s – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/american-ingenuity-sportswear-1930s-1970s
Designer sportswear was not usurped from Europe, as “modern art” would later be; it was genuinely invented and developed in America.
making ready-to-wear and affordable fashion realistic and attractive to women of the epoch
