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The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2010 ‘American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity’ exhibition explored the evolution of female fashion from 1890–1940, a period when the role of women in society developed rapidly. This article examines two of the cultural roles that fashion helped to define: the heiress figure of the 1890s, and the 1920s flapper. Both types of fashion identity had a distinctive look, such as the corseted waist and moulded silhouette of the 1890s dresses, and the shorter skirt
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This page is a summary of: Fashionable Females: Women, Clothes, and Culture in New York, Comparative American Studies An International Journal, December 2013, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1179/1477570013z.00000000054.
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