I am really interesting in that time period as well, particularly from 1910-1920 also.
I think that was the Gibson Girl era, Directoire, and the Reform clothing was really cool. The transition of dress to the flapper era is really cool. Recently I saw a movie -- Iron Jawed Angels (I think that is what was called). It was about the newer generatiion of suffragettes, they went on hunger strikes after being imprisoned in a woman's workhouse for demonstrating (basically holding up signs outside the White House) during war time--"Obstructing Traffic". It's On Demand on HBO. Hillary Swank and Frances O'Conner were in it. The ladies in the movie don't have their hair bobbed until after they are released from incarceration and I believe that was more of a function of ridding themselves of lice in collision with the new idea of bobbed hair. Alice Paul and Lucy Burns- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Jawed_Angels What is interesting in the movie is that Alice Paul wears some reform clothing in it. I don't know how accurate the costume is in this as I am not a scholar of historical costume, just love it . Perhaps you can get some screen shots. the hemlines start going up during the war. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
