Damsels of Design

Glennie’s Fancy Free Corvette for the 1958 Feminine Auto Show
—an exhibition staged to promote the female designers’ work.

The Damsels of Design were ten women brought on board by General Motors in the mid-1950s, and the first prominent all-female design team in American history. There they worked on every interior element (seats, doors, trim, detailing, color and fabrics) except the instrument panel, which was deemed off limits to women. Sounds like a glamorous gig, doesn't it? But it was a male-dominated field and the damsels faced many challenges.

Linder loading a matching set of luggage into the trunk of her exhibition-model Impala Martinique.

This video from the GM archives features the damsels:



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