Dresses, dresses, dresses...who can pass up a book about a famous dress designer.

Lucy married a drinker and a philanderer. To her surprise and relief he left her.

Divorce isn't something women did in the 1800’s, but it happened.

Her mother was horrified because she said Lucy would be ostracized.

That didn't stop Lucy....she started her own dressmaking business and created gowns for famous Americans and Europeans.

A DRESS OF VIOLET TAFFETA is about a real person Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon.

She is famous not only for her designs, but that she was a survivor of the Titanic.

Facts about investigations into the wealthy who survived was something I didn’t know.

We get to join the workers in the designing houses and learn how they works and also how some design houses would steal designs by only changing a very tiny detail and call it their own.

I do have to say it did drag on a bit, but I enjoyed it.

Fashion fans and fans of this era will love this book. 4/5

This book was given to me by the publisher via NetGalley for an honest review.