Suffrage

The Gibson Way 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 were 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. They have a youthful, vigorous looks that made them seem perfect as if they are a porcelain doll. In Gibson’s pictures the young ladies give off a atmosphere as if they are superior to the men but in a positive way. The oh so dandy attitudes of the women are what completed them. They were very lively and wholesome at the same time. They also didn’t go looking for a man, they waited until a nice gentle man would approach them and ask them for marriage. They would also play sports like golf polo and several others. The Gibson Girl evolved 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 the women took over! Now the war is starting to end and men are coming back home and regaining their spot that they had before they left. The men returning found it troublesome to get back into the same humdrum routine. Women found it grueling as well. They certainly did not wish to go back to becoming the basic house wife they once were. But since there weren’t many returning young soliders the women didn’t have many men to marry. They did not plan on living there whole life just waiting for a guy. Who knows if there was even a guy to be married to. They started to change the way they lived. The women that use to be the oh so lovely gibson girls were changing their attire and what they did during their free time. Although the gibson girl still remaind there youg daughters were trying out a new style. The british call them the flappers. Instead of wearing long lengthy skirts and dresses, they wore dresses that didn’t cover their knees. The dress the flappers wore, were a bit baggy, showing their legs from the knees down and also exposing her arms. Also artificial silk stockings were starting to be worn more and more. Flappers are also stopping from wearing pantaloons and wearing step-ins. A big designer, Ms. Coco Chanel, is creating a style that is in a boy like apperance with some feminality to it. The ladies hair was typically cut short, in a bobbed style, and wore large amounts of make up. The flappers didn’t just change up the style of the era. They also help embellish and evolve the jazz age.

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