The 100th anniversary of the Titanics legendary sinking is fast approaching, and with it, Titanic mania. There are memorial cruises, commemorative postage stamps and, of course, the re-release of James Camerons classic movie in 3-D.
And then there is fashion. In her illustrated young-adult novel, “The Time-Traveling Fashionista on Board the Titanic,” author Bianca Turetsky imagines the gowns, coats and shoes that might have been worn that freezing April night when the worlds largest luxury liner sank to the bottom of the Atlantic and killed 1,496 of its 2,208 passengers.
In the book, a young woman tries on a sparkly pink, empire-waist gown inspired by a real turn-of-the-century designer, Lucy Duff-Gordon, who survived the Titanic disaster.
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