Howard Vincent Kurtz is the Associate Curator of Costumes and Textiles at the Hillwood Museum and Gardens in Washington D.C, and a Professor of Theater at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. He is a member of United Scenic Artists Costume Division, the United States Institute of Theater Technology, the Costume Society of America, the Textile Society of America, and the American Association of Museums.

Nancy Rubin Stuart is an award-winning author and journalist who specializes in women, biography and social history. She is the author of American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post (1995).

Trish Donnally is an award-winning former fashion editor for the San Francisco Chronicle, co-authored The New Traditional and The Collected Home with Darryl Carter. She has written extensively about style, design,architecture and travel.