Book Signing: Kathryn Livingston autthor of "Lilly" - 07/31/2013

Catherine Livingston author of "Lilly" will be singing her book.

 Kathryn Livingston will be signing her book "Lilly" in the Museum lobby.  "Lilly" is a biograpy of Lilly Pulitzer and the dresses that became iconic with America's Palm Beach set and later turned into a multi-million dollar empire.

"It happened like this: The orange juice stained her clothes. She bought colorful five-and-dime fabric that would hide the stains, took it to her dressmaker and had shifts made. Friends saw them and wanted them too. She found a manufacturer in Key West who made them up in Sea Island cotton.

Soon Palm Beach was Lilly Land, as if some explorer had come ashore and planted a flag with her name on it. By 1962, at the Palm Beach Day School's field day, "every grown-up woman on the scene—without exception—was wearing a vibrantly printed, sleeveless new shift called 'a Lilly,' " Ms. Livingston writes. Lilly had become a uniform, camouflage for combat in the jungles of paradise."