Helen Brockman

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Helen Brockman

Born September 24, 1902 (1902-09-24) (age 105)
Flag of Iowa Iowa, United States
Occupation fashion designer, author and professor

Helen Lewis Brockman (born September 24, 1902) is an American fashion designer, author and retired professor. She lives and works in Manhattan, Kansas.

[edit] Biography

Born in Iowa, Brockman found herself living in New York City at the outbreak of the Second World War without a career. She essentially created a career for herself in the fashion industry as a pattern designer.

At the age of 65, when most people are retiring, Brockman accepted a position at Kansas State University in the College of Human Ecology teaching fashion design. Her work, The Theory of Fashion Design, is what made her name widely known in the fashion industry.

Brockman still lives independently in her home adjacent to the university campus. She works as a social host to visiting faculty and other dignitaries who stay as guests of the university in the Brockman House.

[edit] Publications

  • Air Raid Precautions (New York: American Women's Voluntary Services), 1942 (with May Breen).
  • The Theory of Fashion Design (New York: Wiley), 1965.
  • Development of a Crepe Fabric for Use in Scarfs (Dayton, OH: Air Force Systems Command), 1966.
  • The Skirt Handbook (Manhattan, KS: Kansas State University), 1968.
  • The Slacks Handbook: Basic Pattern Development and Derivation of City Pants, Culottes and Slim Pants (Manhattan, KS: Kansas State University), 1968.
  • The Slacks Handbook: Basic Pattern Development and Styling of City Pants, Jeans and Gaucho Pants (Manhattan, KS: Kansas State University), 1973.
  • Mod-u-lar Pattern System Handbook (Manhattan, KS: Kansas State University Research Foundation), 1993.
  • Both Sides of Nice (Manhattan, KS: KS Publishing, Inc.), 2005. ISBN 0-975410-93-8
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