The articles that caught my attention the most were the articles discussing how fashion impacted feminism in the 1920's. This is a pretty obscure topic but I'm hoping that through further research and inference I can find out more to see if it's a solid route of research. I'm curious to see how I can tie this in to the Great Gatsby but I'm hoping through Fitzgerald's descriptions of women and fashion I can make those inferences.
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Jeanne Lanvin, French, 1867-1946, (Designer),. Ensemble, Evening. Summer 1923, Image: 2006. Artstor, library-artstor-org.erl.lib.byu.edu/asset/ABROOKLYNIG_10312348127
This image is a dress designed by Jeanne Lanvin, and attached to the image is a short description about why she designed these dresses the way she did and what styles are popular i.e. sparce surface embellishments, and even creating her own color of blue dye.
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Roberts, Mary Louise. “Samson and Delilah Revisited: The Politics of Women's Fashion in 1920s France.” The American Historical Review, vol. 98, no. 3, 1993, pp. 657–684. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2167545. Accessed 18 Mar. 2020.
This article was discussing the politics of fashion in France in the 1920's, and discussing the backlash from males that women had when they began dressing more "scandalously", or cutting their hair in bobs.
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Aspers, Patrik, and Frédéric Godart. “Sociology of Fashion: Order and Change.” Annual Review of Sociology, vol. 39, 2013, pp. 171–192., www.jstor.org/stable/43049631. Accessed 18 Mar. 2020.
This article discussed the history and sociology of fashion throughout times and in different countries. It requires a lot of filtering through to find the portions about France and New York fashion in the 1920's however, once you find it it has a good amount information about the cultural impacts of fashion in those times.
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The Fashion Praxis Collective. “Fashion—Precarity—Labor.” Women's Studies Quarterly, vol. 45, no. 3/4, 2017, pp. 229–233. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26421135. Accessed 18 Mar. 2020.
This article was interesting because it gave me information about how the fashion mercantile industry was primarily powered by women and children workers in the 1920's. This makes me wonder about a connection between the changes in fashion in the 1920's and how they tie into the production industry being powered by women.
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Honey, Maureen. “Gotham's Daughters: Feminism in the 1920s.” American Studies, vol. 31, no. 1, 1990, pp. 25–40. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40642351. Accessed 22 Mar. 2020.
This article provided me with more information about feminism in the 1920's and societal gender roles. It was interesting because there was a portion of the article that discussed fictional heroines in the 1920's and how they compare to realistic gender roles.
I think your angle on fashion and how it relates to the gap between men and women in the 1920s is a very interesting approach. I haven't read The Great Gatsby in a while so I'm not entirely sure how much he describes fashion, but I wonder if there's a lot of content to pull on that subject.
ReplyDeleteThis is a really interesting direction to take your paper, and I'm glad you found so many sources to work with! I think one thing that could be helpful in your analysis, is looking at a connection between the rebellious sense of fashion (bobs and scandalous clothes) and the rebellious attitudes/actions of different characters.
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