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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 voting booth, the workforce, and the world at large, their wardrobes evolved with them.
About the Author
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell is a fashion historian, curator, and journalist based in Los Angeles. She writes about fashion, art, and culture for TheAtlantic.com, Politico, and The Wall Street Journal, and has lectured at museums and universities around the world. Her book "Fashion Victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette" won the 2016 Millia Davenport Publication Award from the Costume Society of America. She's appeared on the Biography Channel and Starz, NPR, and the podcasts Dressed and Outfit. Her newest book--"Worn On This Day: The Clothes That Made History"--explores fashion's fascinating history, one day at a time.
