A New Book Spotlights a Trio of Swashbuckling Female Retail Executives
Some 50 years later, women in the United States were running those stories themselves. She adds, Macys hired its first woman executive in the 1890s! Department stores were this kind of unheralded vehicle for fashion designers. Photo: Courtesy ofWhen Women Ran Fifth Avenue (As a bonus, she also sprinkles in shorter histories of another notable woman in fashion.) She even went so far as to hire a genealogist to track down living relatives of Shaver and Odlums....