First in Fashion: Eddie Bauer: Down Jacket Developer / Mary Quant: Miniskirt Maker / Levi Strauss: Blue Jean Genius / Sam Foster: Sunglasses Success / ... Designer / Chuck Taylor: Sneaker Sensation

Whether they're vintage finds or today's trends someone was First in Fashion! This series highlights some of fashion's most innovative inventors. Budding fashionistas will love learning about these subjects' early lives, how they designed, developed, and marketed their famous product, and how their creations changed fashion forever. An attractive design and eye-catching visuals draw readers in, while engaging text delivers key business and economic concepts. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.