How the war editor of Vogue transformed women’s lives

A lady, immaculate in her hat and gloves, screaming chic in the 1940s, stands in the wreckage of an exploding house.

Dressed for War tells the story of a woman with details on her spring hats on front-line war stories, suggest that women's readers should be equally curious about both.

But like many women who expanded their horizons dramatically in wartime, Withers subsequently fought with pressure to return to a traditi....