1. Marcy Babbitt, Living Christian Science: Fourteen Lives (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1975), 190.
  2. “Adele Simpson: Fashion Designer for First Ladies,” Los Angeles Times, 26 August 1995, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-08-26-mn-39154-story.html;  “Woman’s Dress, 1948-58,” National Museum of American History, https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_360605.
  3. Babbitt, Living Christian Science, 188.
  4. Adele Simpson, interview by Phyllis Feldkamp, 13 June 1978, FIT Special Collections & College Archives, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGn-5UiLTQ4, 16:45–17:30.
  5. Babbitt, Living Christian Science, 188.
  6. “Adele Simpson: Fashion Designer for First Ladies,” Los Angeles Times, 26 August 1995, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-08-26-mn-39154-story.html;
  7. Babbitt, Living Christian Science, 191–192.
  8. Herbert Koshetz, “Fashion House Run by a Woman Is a Rarity,” The New York Times, 21 December 1959, 39.
  9. Babbitt, Living Christian Science, 189. “Wesley Simpson, Designer And Textile Executive, 72,” The New York Times, 9 September 1975, 42.
  10. Babbitt, Living Christian Science, 187.
  11. Babbitt, 190.
  12. Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (Boston: The Christian Science Board of Directors), 60.
  13. Babbitt, 190.
  14. Babbitt, 190, 196.
  15. Eddy, Science and Health, 475.
  16. Babbitt, 191.
  17. Constance C.R. White, “Adele Simpson, 91, a Designer And Postwar Fashion Leader,” The New York Times, 24 August 1995, D21.
  18. Babbitt, 188.
  19. “Spotted: Elegance in Black and White,” https://fidmmuseum.org/2015/05/adele-simpson.html#:~:text=spotted
  20. Marilyn Hoffman, “Peru Now Inspires Fashion,” The Christian Science Monitor, 21 May 1962, 4.
  21. Babbitt, 193.
  22. “Wesley Simpson, Designer And Textile Executive, 72,” The New York Times, 9 September 1975, 42.
  23. Lisa Lockwood, Joan Simpson Raines and Richard Raines obituary, Women’s Wear Daily, 20 May 2020.
  24. Adele Simpson dead at 91,” Women’s Wear Daily, August 1995, 6.
  25. Babbitt, 200.