Rebecca C. Tuite is a fashion historian and writer from London. She graduated from the University of Exeter with a BA (Hons) in English (Class I), and completed part of her undergraduate studies at Vassar College in New York. She also holds a MA in Fashion Journalism (Distinction Honours) from London College of Fashion. Her research interests include film and costume, fashion photography, twentieth-century American fashion, Sylvia Plath and fashion, as well as the history of women’s education in the United States, with a particular focus on the clothing and campus culture at the Seven Sisters Colleges. Rebecca’s work has been published in Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture, and she is the author of Seven Sisters Style: The All-American Preppy Look (Rizzoli), and The 1950s in Vogue: The Jessica Daves Years, 1952-1962 (forthcoming from Thames & Hudson).