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One specific piece of clothing was the sporting pantaloon or the women's bloomer; [4] originally worn in America in the 1850s as a women's suffrage statement by Amelia Bloomer, it turned into the ideal costume for women riding bicycles - an activity that was considered acceptable for women to participate in during the late 19th century. This ...
1920s Fashion Plates of men, women, and children's fashion from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries; Photographs from the 1920s taken by photographer, Henry Walker at the University of Houston Digital Library Archived 2010-06-25 at the Wayback Machine "1920s - 20th Century Fashion Drawing and Illustration". Fashion, Jewellery & Accessories.
Advertisement for women's fashion at McWhirters department store, Brisbane, Australia, 1941 Through the mid-1930s, the natural waistline was often accompanied by emphasis on an empire line. Short bolero jackets , capelets, and dresses cut with fitted midriffs or seams below the bust increased the focus on breadth at the shoulder.
Women wore loose-fitted garments and accessorized with long strand pearl bead necklaces, feather boas, and cigarette holders. The fashion of the Harlem Renaissance was used to convey elegance and flamboyancy and needed to be created with the vibrant dance style of the 1920s in mind. [43] Popular by the 1930s was a trendy, egret-trimmed beret.
Historians of women and of youth emphasize the strength of the progressive impulse in the 1920s. [150] Women consolidated their gains after the success of the suffrage movement, and moved into causes such as world peace, [151] good government, maternal care (the Sheppard–Towner Act of 1921), [152] and local support for education and public ...
During the 1899 New Women's Movement Initiative (NWMI), Social Justice Feminism was made the emphasis of the women's movement. The NWMI was a series of meetings meant to “build relationships, trust, and analysis necessary to revitalize US feminism” [1] During these meetings, there was a struggle to agree on, “whether the women’s movement should aspire to be about [women’s] rights or ...
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The death of large numbers of young men in the war, and the Spanish flu pandemic which struck in 1918 killing between 20–40 million people, [31] inspired in young people a feeling that life is short and could end at any moment. Therefore, young women wanted to spend their youth enjoying their life and freedom rather than staying at home and ...