Hello, and welcome to the Season 2, Episode 23 of the Bones & Bobbins Podcast!
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The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 2, Episode 23: From Mary Sachs to Coco Sucks
S02E23: Mary Sachs, the Merchant Princess of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Coco Chanel, who was very good at both designing clothes and being a horrifyingly terrible person.
Meet Mary Sachs, a single, immigrant woman who bought herself flowers and then built a department store empire that survived two world wars, and Coco Chanel (yes, that one), who is about two thousand percent more problematic and disappointing than we had imagined. Like, seriously, yikes.
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Here are links to the sources and resources we used while researching this episode:
Links to research materials:
Mary Sachs:
- Mary Sachs: Merchant Princess, by Barbara Trainin Blank: https://www.sunburypress.com/collections/history/products/barbara-blank-mary-sachs-478-142-198-manual
- The Merchant Princess: https://youtu.be/UTKongMGLE0
- Mary Sachs historical talk: https://youtu.be/qJgtoKRynEM (Fair warning: I think this is a handheld phone recording from a historical society talk. The information is good, but the camera moves quite a bit.)
- A watercolor rendering of her store’s 1960s interior layout: https://digital.hagley.org/2388_20_50a
- Eleanor Le Marie: https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/eleanor-le-maire-associates-records-9643
Coco Chanel:
- Harvard Business School Publication- Coco Chanel: From Fashion Icon to Nazi Agent: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54412
- NY Times Archived Article frm 1/11/1971 https://www.nytimes.com/1971/01/11/archives/chanel-the-couturier-dead-in-paris-chanel-the-fashion-spirit-of-the.html
- Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life was written by Justine Picardie https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6625991-coco-chanel
- Voguepedia (Archived Version) https://web.archive.org/web/20131030104112/http://www.vogue.com/voguepedia/Chanel
- Sleeping With the Enemy: Coco Chanel, Nazi Agent https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12143439-sleeping-with-the-enemy
Further Reading:
- Makeup & History Coco Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM4RPTmUY0w