1900: The Gibson Girl
1900: The Gibson Girl
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The Gibson Girl, who appeared in the end of the XIX century and gained popularity in the beginning of the XX century, was the personification of the feminine ideal of physical attractiveness portrayed by the satirical pen-and-ink illustrator Charles Dana Gibson. She represented the visual ideal of the phenomenon of the "New Woman".
Her statuesque, narrow-waisted ideal feminine figure was portrayed as being ‘easy’ and stylish, always perfectly dressed in the latest fashionable attire. She was also one of the new, more athletic shaped women, who often exercised and was emancipated to the extent that she could enter the workplace, but, at the same time, she refined beauty in spirit.
Fashion in the early 1900s continued the long elegant lines of the 1890s. This period is characterized with tall, stiff collars, broad hats and full hairstyles. The fashion houses began to show a new silhouette, with a thicker waist, flatter bust and hips. By the end of the first decade of the XX century the most fashionable skirts cleared the floor and approached the ankle. The overall silhouette narrowed and straightened, became more columnar, and little by little marked the approaching abandonment of the corset and, in this way, the Gibson Girl went out fashion to welcome the "flappers".
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