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Gibson Girl. The Gibson Girl was the personification of the feminine ideal of physical attractiveness as portrayed by the pen-and-ink illustrations of artist Charles Dana Gibson during a 20-year period that spanned the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States. [ 1] The artist saw his creation as representing the composite of ...
Website. guerrillagirls .com. Guerrilla Girls is an anonymous group of feminist, female artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world. [ 1] The group formed in New York City in 1985, born out of a picket against the Museum of Modern Art the previous year. The core of the group's work is bringing gender and racial inequality ...
A pin-up model is a model whose mass-produced pictures and photographs have wide appeal within the popular culture of a society. Pin-up models are usually glamour models, actresses, and fashion models whose pictures are intended for informal, aesthetic display, such as being pinned onto a wall. From the 1940s, pictures of pin-up girls were also ...
The 1920s classic tubular fashion was born. Parisian fashion house Madeleine-et-Madeleine design, January, 1922. Actress Louise Brooks in 1926, wearing bobbed hair under a cloche hat. Paris set the fashion trends for Europe and North America. [5] The fashion for women was all about letting loose. Women wore dresses all day, every day.
“He’ll frame the ball but he won’t frame the shirt,” he added. Si-woo followed up his eagle with a closing par to card an even-par 71, keeping him at five-over overall for the week.
A bustle is a padded undergarment or wire frame used to add fullness, or support the drapery, at the back of women's dresses in the mid-to-late 19th century. [ 1][ 2] Bustles are worn under the skirt in the back, just below the waist, to keep the skirt from dragging. Heavy fabric tended to pull the back of a skirt down and flatten it.
Cross-dressing and drag in film and television has followed a long history of cross-dressing and drag on the English stage, and made its appearance in the early days of the silent films. Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel brought the tradition from the English music halls when they came to the United States with Fred Karno 's comedy troupe in 1910 ...
Cross-dressing is the act of wearing clothes traditionally or stereotypically associated with a different gender. [ 2] From as early as pre-modern history, cross-dressing has been practiced in order to disguise, comfort, entertain, and express oneself. [ 3]