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020			_a9781250275790 _q(hardcover)
020			_z9781250275806 _q(ebook)
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050	0	0	_aGT2065 _b.C57 2022
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100	1		_aChrisman-Campbell, Kimberly, _eauthor. _912568
245	1	0	_aSkirts : _bfashioning modern femininity in the twentieth century / _cKimberly Chrisman-Campbell.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bSt. Martin's Press, _c[2022]
300			_axiii, 254 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations (some color) ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- The Delphos : goddess dressing -- The tennis dress : changing the game -- The little black dress : women in uniform -- The wrap dress : working it -- The strapless dress : women on the brink -- The bar suit : reinventing the postwar woman -- The naked dress : daring to bare -- The miniskirt : fashion's final frontier -- The midi skirt : divider of nations -- The bodycon dress : anatomy as accessory -- Conclusion : the future of skirts.
520			_a"In a sparkling, beautifully illustrated social history, Skirts 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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aSkirts _xHistory _y20th century. _922325
650		0	_aFemininity _xIn popular culture. _922326
650		0	_aWomen _xSocial conditions _y20th century. _922327
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