Gibson+Girl+vs.+Flappers+(incomplete)

Gibs to Flaps By: Katie Griffith Charles Dana Gibson was the originator of the Gibson Girls. He started to establish the most sophisticated drawings of women. They had their hair all done up and they wore very little makeup. They either wore long elegant dresses or skirts as well as magnificent blouses with giant spiffy ruffles. These ladies could also be found wearing large hats with feathers. She (the Gibson Girl) was the ideal American women. The gibson girl is portrayed as monumental and well-dressed. Only particular women can pull the look off. With angel like features and slender bodies with a larger hip area they can certainly pose for Charles Gibson to draw them any day. They have a youthful, vigorous looks that make them seem perfect as if they are a porcelain doll. In Gibson’s pictures the young ladies give off an atmosphere as if they are superior to men but in a positive way. The oh so dandy attitudes of these women are what completed them. They are very lively and wholesome at the same time. They also don’t go looking for a man, they wait until a nice gentle man will approach them and ask them for marriage. They also started playing different sports like golf, polo, and several others. The Gibson Girl evolved and entered thework force during the time of World War I. They did this by starting to work in factories, warehouses, and other places that men would have worked but could not at the time because they were over seas fighting. So i guess you vould say the women were taking over at that time! Now the war is over and men are returning back home and regaining their spot in the factories that they had before they left. The men returning are finding it troublesome to get back into the same humdrum routine. especially since the the women do not want to give up thier spots. Women are finding it grueling as well. They certainly do not wish to go back to becoming the basic house wife they once were. But since there are not many returning young soliders the women do not have many men to marry. They don't plan on living their whole life just waiting for a guy. Who knows if there was even a guy to be married to, they deffinately do not plan on dieing alone. They are started to change the way they're living. The women that use to be the oh so lovely gibson girls are changing both their attire and what they are doing during their free time. Although the gibson girl still remaind the youg daughters of thgibson girl generation are trying out a new style. The British call them the flappers. What is so different about these two generations you may ask. Well there is many different things that would let you see the difference between them. Instead of wearing the long lengthy skirts and dresses that their gibson mothers wore, the flappers are wearing dresses that don't cover their knees. The dresses are a bit baggy, showing their legs from the knees down and also exposing her arms. Also artificial silk stockings are starting to be worn more and more. Flappers stopped wearing pantaloons and starting to wear the step-ins. A big designer, Ms. Coco Chanel, is creating a style that is in a boy like apperance with some feminality to it. She likes this young reblish style and is embraceing it with her own twist. The ladies hair is typically cut very short, in a bobbed style, and they wear large amounts of make up. These ladies are starting to drink more and drive cars. Flappers are smoking with long pipe sort of things. and throwing scadalous parties. The flappers don't just change up the style of this time period. They also help embellish and evolve the jazz age, and make it seem more adventerous. From elegant and proper to free and adventerous the style these past twenty thirty year have certainly change. Let us know what you think, by writing in and voicing your oppinion. Is the direction were going good or bad, and give examples to support your point of view. Thanks from all of us at the Cincinnati Enquirer.

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Gibson Girl http://www.vintagevictorian.com/images/99dl_1_1small.jpg

Flapper http://www.studio-era.com/Images/flapper_chinese.jpg__

WEB SITES USED [|__http://www.gibson-girls.com/__] [|__http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson_girl__]

http://www.geocities.com/flapper_culture/

http://history1900s.about.com/od/1920s/a/flappers.htm

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