Rόisin (Rose) although fictional, was inspired by actual events. It’s the story of an ordinary Australian-born woman of Irish descent with a unique character who showed others by her positive determination and entrepreneurial flair how to live their dream and become extraordinary.

    It is a spirited woman’s adventure that begins in the era of the Great Depression, through the torment of WW11 to the postwar economic boom years and into the swinging 1970s.

    During decades of daring, her quest was often challenged by the established norms of the day, when society measured success or failure by the gender of an individual.

    By her twentieth year, Rόisin had a dream and a unquenchable desire to become a dress-designer, and not just designing the normally acceptable designs of her era, but to create and introduce a completely new unique concept that would alter the way people saw themselves.

  -  Apart from the dramatic aspects of the story, students will find the descriptions of the ever-changing styles of the Australian and British rag-trade very interesting.  Readers should gain an enlightening insight of the clothing industry from the design stage through the manufacturing processes to the finished garment.