"Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening." -Coco Chanel
This video clip shows the popular fashions in America during the 20th Century. It aims to help you tie in the main ideas of this blog and help you see the advancements in styles, patterns, fabrics, and silhouettes through the decades.
The following clip is from an interview with author Gail Collins. She discusses the growing role of women and breaking of the male breadwinner model that was familiar before 1960. Pay attention to the causes of women gaining more rights; all of these helped shape women's fashion.
The following clip expresses the growing role of women during WWI. The aim of this video is to help you understand some of the shifts in women's rights and how they directly affected women's fashion from 1910-1960.
The following excerpt from an interview with American historian Eric Foner explains how women's lives were changing in the late 19th century. These changes, along with points from the blog will hopefully allow you to gain a better understanding of what shaped women's fashion from 1860-1910.
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