September 6, 2022
Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century
September 6, 2022
272 pages
NetGalley
St Martin’s Press
Nonfiction, digital, pub widget
9/4/22-10/3/22
Fascinating look at the history of women’s clothing especially the skirt over the years.
The evolution and style that changed and transformed generations. Pants were mostly seen as a masculine clothes. It was an actual crime to wear pants in some places.
Hollywood actresses made news with fashion choices.
Discusses 10 different types of skirts, many of which I hadn’t known had a name. My copy did not contain pictures but had me looking them up out of curiosity. This book has added a new perspective in wearing dresses which I normally relate to getting “dressed up”. The author was effective in describing the evolution of women’s choice of clothing. The choice for some women to wear pants spoke to a feminist movement at one time as well as practical. She also addresses men who choose to wear skirts or kilts.
“It’s too early to say definitively whether this creative and individualistic blending of masculine and feminine garments, accessories, and cosmetics is a passing fad or a new “standard,” either in
fashion or in gender expression.”
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