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Chrisman-Campbell, Kimberly.
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Fashion -- 20th century.
Skirts -- History -- 20th century.
Fashion design -- History -- 20th century.
Femininity -- In popular culture.
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Chrisman-Campbell, Kimberly.
Fashion -- 20th century.
Skirts -- History -- 20th century.
Fashion design -- History -- 20th century.
Femininity -- In popular culture.
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Skirts
: fashioning modern femininity in the twentieth
century
/ Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell.
by
Chrisman-Campbell, Kimberly.
St. Martin's Press, 2022.
Call #:
746.9209 C554s
Subjects
Fashion
--
20th
century
.
Skirts
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Fashion design
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Femininity
--
In popular culture.
ISBN:
9781250275790 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xiii, 254 p. : col. ill.; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"In a sparkling, beautifully illustrated social
history
--
Dr. Kimberley Chrisman-Campbell, fashion historian and journalist
--
traces the shifting roles of women over the twentieth
century
through the era's most iconic and influential dresses. While the story of women's liberation has often been framed by the growing acceptance of pants over the twentieth
century
, the most important and influential female fashions of the era featured
skirts
. Suffragists and soldiers marched in
skirts
; the heroines of the Civil Rights Movement took a stand in
skirts
. Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keeffe revolutionized modern art and Marie Curie won two Nobel Prizes in
skirts
. When NASA put a man on the moon, "the computer wore a skirt," in the words of one of those "computers", mathematician Katherine G. Johnson. As women made strides towards equality in the voting booth, the workforce, and the world at large, their wardrobes evolved with them. They did not need to "wear the pants" to be powerful or progressive; the dress itself became modern as designers like Mariano Fortuny, Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, and Diane von Furstenberg redefined femininity for a new era.
Skirts
looks at the
history
of twentieth-century womenswear through the lens of game-changing styles like the Little Black Dress and the Bar Suit, as well as more obscure innovations like the Taxi dress or the Popover dress, which came with a matching potholder. These influential garments illuminate the times in which they were first worn-and the women who wore them-while continuing to shape contemporary fashion and even opening the door for a genderfluid future of
skirts
. At once an authoritative work of
history
and a delightfully entertaining romp through decades of fashion,
Skirts
charts the changing fortunes, freedoms, and aspirations of women themselves."--From publisher.
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