![]() Refusal to refund untracked order: I made an order number 13765878 from Figleaves,which was dispatched on the 12th Otober untracked and never arrived.I have asked neighbours and postal office but they don’t know nothing about it. Once I use my gift card that was issued to me a while back for the same reason misguided on sizes by a staff member I won't be ordering form Figleaves again. I wasted 30mins on Figleaves chat for nothing. IN THESE UNCERTAIN TIMES KEEPING THE CUSTOMER SHOULD BE OF TOP PRIORITY! EVEN TRYING TO OFFERING AN ALTERNATIVE OR BEING APOLOGETIC WOULD HAVE BEEN HELPFUL. All I did was ask for was the black to be priced similar to the white basque as that's what I initially ordered and wanted. ![]() My bra is also faulty, now and having contacted them today there's nothing that they will do about their previous mistake! On top of that she was sending smiley faces knowing she wasn't being helpful. Yet I still saw the basque online in the colour and size I wanted, They go up a UK size L for goodness sake. ![]() Next thing I knew she sent a text and issued a refund, NOT AS SHE INITALLY SAID SHE WOULD. In fact she didnt know her UK/US conversions accurately. Then another colleague calls within an hour or so to tell me it was an American size and she will call back with a resolve, which she never did. In 1951, she and historian Gerda Lerner wrote a revue, “Singing of Women,” for the women’s division of the New York Council of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions the poetry collection The Double Bed from the Feminine Side appeared in 1958 one of the first books for children about women’s work, Mommies at Work, came in 1961 and After Nora Slammed the Door (1964) carried the subtitle American Women in the 1960’s, the Unfinished Revolution. A self-descriptive list in Merriam’s papers notes, “She claims to have been born a feminist, since her birth date is July 19th, the anniversary of the in 1848.Poor customer service, no resolution to previous mistakes on figleaves part, bad communication and no intention to actually help! They sent me the wrong item and apologetically re-ordered the correct size by phone which was very helpful and polite. The Club (1976), a wry and sharply comic satire of male behavior, epitomizes the feminism that had been a motif in Merriam’s work long before the contemporary women’s movement. “Hushabye Baby” is not on the treetop but on “the top floor / Project elevator / Won’t work any more,” and “Mary, Mary / Urban Mary,” watches her “sidewalk grow / with chewing gum wads / And cigarette butts.” Set to music by Helen Miller, Inner City: A Street Cantata opened on Broadway in December 1971. In The Inner City Mother Goose (1969), she transforms nursery rhymes into social commentary. She transformed a lifelong commitment to progressive political views into poems and plays of urban life and social justice. Roosevelt (1952), Emma Lazarus (1956, 1959), and Martin Luther King, Jr. For children and adults she wrote biographies of women and men whom she saw as models: Franklin D. Though known for her books of children’s poetry, there is more to Merriam’s remarkable body of work. She raised her children in the city and once commented, “I expect to be the last living inhabitant of Manhattan when everyone else has quit for sub or exurbia.” 1952), by her second husband, Martin Michel. Married four times, she was the mother of two sons, Guy (b. Although she delighted in travel and loved the sea, Merriam’s life and writing career centered on New York. She chose the writing name Merriam from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary on her desk. There, a teacher speculated that her lack of success in getting her work published might be the result of her Jewish surname. The family owned a chain of dress shops, and Eve “grew up with fashion.” Her book Figleaf: The Business of Being in Fashion (1960) is a wittily devastating critique of the industry for its manipulation of women.Īfter graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1937, she embarked on graduate study at Columbia University. Eve Merriam was born Eva Moskowitz in Philadelphia, on July 19, 1916, one of four children of Jennie (Siegel) and Max Moskowitz, emigrants as children from Russia.
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