[citation needed] Dew returned to New York City, where she participated in the East Side folk music scene and dressed Joan Baez.
She then moved to Boston and started the cloth brand Isis, but she could not attract young customers that could afford her high-end creations.
Following the suggestion from a modeling agency, she became a designer for Puritan's Paraphernalia business in the late summer of 1966,[1] and later created her own company, Experipuritaneous.
[4] Her creations, which involved "pliable and removable plastic lamps" powered by rechargeable nickel-cadmium batteries, could stay lit for up to 5 hours.
[5] Dew's work was featured in the seminal show "Body Covering" at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in New York City in 1968, which explored the link between technology and clothing.