Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell
Author
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Beginning on January 1st and ending on December 31st, Chrisman-Campbell looks at garments worn on monumental occasions across centuries. She offers capsule fashion histories of everything from space suits to wedding gowns, Olympics uniforms, and armor. In every case there is a newsworthy narrative behind the garment, whether famous and glamorous or anonymous and humble. From celebrities to ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events, the stories...