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Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell

 

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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 Rights Movement took a stand in skirts. Frida Kahlo and Georgia O?Keeffe revolutionized modern art and Marie Curie won two Nobel Prizes in skirts. When NASA put a man on the moon, ?the computer wore a skirt,? in the words of one of those computers, mathematician Katherine G. Johnson. As women made strides towards equality in the vote, the workforce, and the world at large, their wardrobes evolved with them. They did not need to "wear the pants" to be powerful or progressive; the dress itself became modern as designers like Mariano Fortuny,

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