Boyle wrote to her family saying that the work included writing fashion articles for the Chicago Tribune, which appeared under Bedwell's name.

[4]: 164-5 From 1929 until 1940, Bedwell was a "style spy" for Margaret Hayden Rorke of the Textile Color Card Association of the United States.

Bedwell wrote weekly letters to Rorke, reporting on the color trends she saw on the streets, in restaurants, and in the couture houses of Paris.

She had reported on fashion bootlegging and "style pirates" in a 1930 article that appeared in the New York Times.

[5] Bedwell later put this knowledge to use in outlining a novel, Yellow Dusk (Hurst & Blackett, 1937), a thriller about drug smuggling and fashion theft set in a Paris couture house.