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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Dress Reform"”.
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Walking Through the Progressive Era in the Jenness Miller Boots
… of 1880-1920 saw the development of a variety of reform programs and progressive ideas. This thesis explores Annie Jenness Miller (1895-1939) and the Jenness Miller Boots she created. My research examines shoe reform, sheds light on Annie Jenness Miller as a reformer, and the shoes she …
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Women and trousers : being a work on dual garnitures and a case study of the bifurcated movement in nineteenth-century clothing for women in North America
This thesis analyzes the trousered dress reform movement for women in North America and Britain in the latter half of the nineteenth century, by studying the environment in which trousers were promoted, and by using two art phenomenons of the mid-nineteenth century--the American sculptor Hiram …
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Bodies That Struggle: A Study of the Use of Illness in Spanish Women's Writing, 1880--1920
… in the hygiene crusade embraced exercise and dress reform largely because of the social and political freedoms they saw as resulting from these reforms, as well as the benefits to their own health. For the literary section of this study, I focus on three separate illnesses, each as portrayed …
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An investigation into the relationship between philosophical principle and artistic practice with reference to the role of dance in education
… militarism, the gymnastic movement, health and dress reform are also examined. The founding of the Women's Colleges of Physical Education established dance as an aspect of physical training, a role reinforced by the Board of Education through the publication of a series of Syllabuses on Physical …
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"The ""Full Bloom of Rosy Health"": Fitness and Feminism in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction"
… of such movements as health, exercise, and dress reform, until characters, athletic bodies and manifest physical fitness become signifiers of many new freedoms for American women."
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Graphic sensations: Vogue and the politics of the body, 1930-1945
… as snapshots, streamlined design, and modern dress reform energized the look and experience of reading Vogue. As the next decade brought war, Vogue documented men and women in the American Armed Forces stationed in Europe and transmitted images of burned, mutilated, and broken bodies back to …
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Shopping for Pleasure: The Fashion Lover in Victorian Fiction
… and the emergence of a consumer culture to the dress reform movement, the study suggests that the definitions of fashion's transgressive pleasures shifted over the course of the Victorian period: as the century drew to a close, the anti-fashion vanguard (who had long blamed fashion for …