Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century
Sep 2022 · Macmillan + ORM
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Discover the iconic dresses that defined a century of women's fashion and empowerment in this beautifully illustrated social history.
While women's liberation has often been framed by the growing acceptance of pants, the most influential female fashions of the 20th century featured skirts. Skirts traces the shifting roles of women through the era's game-changing styles, from suffragists marching in skirts to Civil Rights heroines taking a stand in them. Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keeffe revolutionized modern art in skirts, while Marie Curie won two Nobel Prizes in hers. When NASA put a man on the moon, "the computer wore a skirt," said mathematician Katherine G. Johnson.
As women made strides towards equality, their wardrobes evolved with them. Designers like Mariano Fortuny, Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, and Diane von Furstenberg redefined femininity for a new era with innovations like the little black dress, the Bar Suit, and lesser-known creations like the Taxi dress or Pop-Over dress. 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.
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.
While women's liberation has often been framed by the growing acceptance of pants, the most influential female fashions of the 20th century featured skirts. Skirts traces the shifting roles of women through the era's game-changing styles, from suffragists marching in skirts to Civil Rights heroines taking a stand in them. Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keeffe revolutionized modern art in skirts, while Marie Curie won two Nobel Prizes in hers. When NASA put a man on the moon, "the computer wore a skirt," said mathematician Katherine G. Johnson.
As women made strides towards equality, their wardrobes evolved with them. Designers like Mariano Fortuny, Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, and Diane von Furstenberg redefined femininity for a new era with innovations like the little black dress, the Bar Suit, and lesser-known creations like the Taxi dress or Pop-Over dress. 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.
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.
Discover the iconic dresses that defined a century of women's fashion and empowerment in this beautifully illustrated social history.
While women's liberation has often been framed by the growing acceptance of pants, the most influential female fashions of the 20th century featured skirts. Skirt...
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About the author
Dr. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell is an award-winning fashion historian, curator, and journalist. She has worked as a consultant and educator for museums and universities around the world. She is the author of Fashion Victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, Worn on This Day: The Clothes That Made History, The Way We Wed: A Global History of Wedding Fashion, and Red, White, and Blue on the Runway. She frequently writes about fashion, art, and culture for scholarly journals and news outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Politico, and has appeared on NPR, the Biography Channel, Reelz, and numerous podcasts. She lives in Los Angeles.
Dr. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell is an award-winning fashion historian, curator, and journalist. She has worked as a consultant and educator for museums and universities around the world. She is the author of Fashion Victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, Worn on This Day: T...
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