[1] She later studied watercolor painting and theatre design at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts.
She created fully finished watercolour sketches showing her designs, which her tailors and sewing staff then interpreted into proper garments.
[2] In September 1933 King entered a partnership with the department store B. Altman and Company, who sold her clothing through their Shop for American Design.
She was on the short list to design the costumes for Gone with the Wind, but despite being the author Margaret Mitchell's favourite, failed to win the job (which went to Walter Plunkett).
In 1943, she created a collection of clothes specially for female factory workers at Boeing and other West Coast aerospace firms, called Flying Fortress Fashions.