KASEY- USO Research by https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27 Made with magic en-us 2018-05-15 15:53:46 UTC 2025-11-17 21:20:14 UTC hello@padlet.com Women and Clothing 1950s (Body Paragraph 4) kfitzpatrick2020 https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/260913250
  • Vogue photographed girls from the Vassar college
  • These girls were  "media-cultivated, almost mythical presence that permeates
    1950s American media, popular culture, and fashion discourses"
  • Represented powerful independence
  • Balance of realistic and fantasy
  • These girls were exploring their individuality
  • The girls studied garments and came up with their own aesthetic as the "Vassar Girl"
  • A photo from Vogue in 1957, the woman shows "Campus Work Clothes"
    • She is wearing a button-down blouse, full skirt, and cardigan
    • her makeup is perfect with perfectly curled hair as well
    • She has a pearl necklace and a bracelet

    • ]]>     2018-05-15 16:10:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/260913250     3 Assumptions of Topic kfitzpatrick2020 https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/260919710 1. It was a difficult process for women to change their way of dressing.
    2. Women still had many restrictions.
    3. Society looked down on them.]]>     2018-05-15 16:26:51 UTC https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/260919710     3 Questions of Topic kfitzpatrick2020 https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/260919822 1. How did the clothing social norm switch for women?
    2. Were there protests and movements to change the fashion?
    3. Who were some of the most influential women that changed the fashion?]]>     2018-05-15 16:27:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/260919822     Thesis Question kfitzpatrick2020 https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/261538942 How did the idea of a women change through the lens of fashion in the 20th century?]]> 2018-05-17 11:54:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/261538942 Women's fashion from 1900's-1950's (Body Paragraphs 2 and 4) kfitzpatrick2020 https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/262215298
  • 1907- wedding dress, long, lace, gathered sleeves
  • 1910- pink and gold gown
  • 1914-1918 skirts became wider and shorter to be more practical
  • 1920s- flapper dress with beads and tassels
    • More boyish shape women went for
    • After switched role from WWI
    • Were able to dance
  • 1930s- Women were working to support unemployed husbands during the depression
    • Work clothes
    • Easy to wash
    • Cotton
  • Utility overalls in 1940s- small amounts of fabric, so small amount of money spent
  • Military look
    • Broad shoulders
    • Wedding outfit with coat and fur- it could be worn again
  • 1950s- Women could afford more material
    • Full circle skirts
    • Sun suits showed you could go on a cruise or vacation
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  • Whiteness- on top for social and racial hierarchy 
  • Southern lady seen as beautiful, unmarried, and young
  • Anne Moody, the homecoming queen and 1963 at college she led a sit-in
  • She was beaten and thrown on floor
  • She was covered in mustard, ketchup and sugar
  • In response to the demand for equality by race, white southerners turned to beauty queens and female beauty
  • The beauty queens gave a polite coverup for the white southerners who were rejecting black demands
  • Beauty queens represented white supremacy and segregation to highlight the value of white females 

    • ]]>     2018-05-21 10:39:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/262314925     Women Activists (Body Paragraphs 1 and 3) kfitzpatrick2020 https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/262315712
  • After WWII, women's lives changed because the technology that was created helped with housework
  • Many more jobs were opened up that did not depend on physical strength
  • In 1963, Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique was published
    • explained how women felt unfulfilled and bored
    • Women who were told that the best thing in life was to have a good house, children, and a husband
  • By 1966, women created the National Organization for Women (NOW)
  • The group tried to right a Bill of Rights for Women which would ensure women's equality
    • Banning employment discrimination 
    • Maternity leave
    • Child care centers
    • Tax deductions for child care
    • Education
    • Job opportunities
  • The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was supported by NOW
  • In 1964, a woman revolution called the Student Nonviolent Coordination Commitee
    • ]]>     2018-05-21 10:46:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/262315712     Feminism (Body Paragraphs 1 and 3) kfitzpatrick2020 https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/262364642
  • 1920, passed the right for women to vote
  • Postsuffrage era:
  • Women’s Joint Congressional Committee- for education and maternal and health care
  • League of Women Voter's- voter registration and education drives
  • Women's Trade Union League- campaign for protection of labor legislation for women
  • National Woman's Party to get rid of discriminatory laws of women
  • Not fighting for strict rules but for laws to help women become more equal legally
  • They had believed they reached liberation
  • 1960's and 70's known as the "second wave" of feminism
  • There were college educated mothers now
  • 1961, JFK made the President's Commission on the Status of Women and Eleanor Roosevelt was in charge
  • 1963, report supported preparing moms for motherhood
  • National distribution of employment, equal pay, and more child-care services
  • The Equal Pay Act of 1963 offered equal pay
  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964 kept employers from hiring those based on sex
  • In the 1960's there was a movement creating a debate on equality, gender, and discrimination
  • From the NOW group, they created health and rape centers
    • Children books were getting rid of gender stereotypes
    • There were women studies in colleges and universities
    • Labour laws changed
    • Women became pilots, construction workers, soldiers, bankers, and bus drivers 
  • Discussion's on women's oppression, nature of gender, and family roles
    • ]]>     2018-05-21 13:58:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/262364642     Color Key kfitzpatrick2020 https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/262396583 Blue: my assumptions and questions for topic
    Pink: my notes and sources
    Yellow: my thesis/question
    Green: outline]]>     2018-05-21 15:18:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/262396583     Outline kfitzpatrick2020 https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/262398244
  • Thesis: The ideal woman has changed throughout history, and with the switch into the 20th century when women were earning more of their rights, the ideal woman was to look elegant and young; yet to be in the work environment, women had to wear more reasonable clothing to move around in and dress more like a man to try to escape discrimination and harassment. 
  • Introduction: During the 20th Century, activism became a very large portion of women's lives. Women's activism started before the 1900's, but they started to make a big difference as well in the 20th Century. As women were earning more rights in the workplace and equal opportunities for jobs, women started to struggle with the idea of what a woman should be. Many people saw the perfect woman as young, beautiful, and elegant, but when in the workplace, women had to wear very practical and simple clothing that looked more masculine so they would be taken more seriously. Women had to balance what society wanted them to look like and dress how they could be respected in the workplace. Because women were getting jobs in offices, they had look smart and strong but also people liked seeing women who looked elegant and beautiful. It became a struggle for women to be taken seriously but also dress in a way that society wanted them to in order to get better opportunities.
  • Body Paragraphs
    1. Paragraph 1: Activism of women at early 1900's: women of parade for women's suffrage in 1912
    2. Paragraph 2: Clothing at early 1900's relating to those current events: image of Coco Chanel Sportswear
    3. Paragraph 3: Activism of women at later 1900's: Speech by Shirley Chrisholm 
      • "Let me note and try to refute two of the commonest arguments that are offered against this amendment. One is that women are already protected under the law and do not need legislation. Existing laws are not adequate to secure equal rights for women. Sufficient proof of this is the concentration of women in lower paying, menial, unrewarding jobs and their incredible scarcity in the upper level jobs. If women are already equal, why is it such an event whenever one happens to be elected to Congress?"
    4. Paragraph 4: Clothing at later 1900's relating to those current events: image of woman as Vassar girl
  • Counterargument: On the other hand, some believe that women always have the choice on what they wear and should be themselves. Women are allowed to make their own choice on their clothing. These women chose to wear more practical clothing because it would be easier for them to work in, and they did not want to spend money on such luxurious items. Because women chose or possibly had to start working, they wanted to wear more reasonable clothes that they could move around in. 
    1. women chose to wear practical clothing
    2. they were activists and made a difference, so it ended up being their choice
    3. they didn't have to follow the idea of a woman
    4. they were becoming more independent people and thinkers
    5. they created their own activists groups, so they were definitely able to make a different and make their own choices
    6. To counter the counterargument: although women could make their own choices and wear what they wanted to wear, the ideal woman was still set in everyone's mind and that did not change the harassment they received. Those who dressed more like the ideal women and acted like the ideal women were more desired as well.
    7. (I used ideas from most of my sources)
  • Conclusion: Society has created an idea of what a woman should be, which often contradicted with the way they had to look and act like in the work environment. As women continued to be activists and create change, they were given more rights, but there is still an ideal woman that society has not been able to shake off. Unfortunately, women working in offices can result in harassment and they feel the way to be respected is to dress more masculine, which will make them look stronger and more powerful. Women may have still had a choice in what they wanted to wear, but society always has an idea of what people should look like. In this case, women in the 20th Century were seen as more elegant looking and were considered beautiful if they were young, slim, and white. This still continues today in our society which is why it is such an important topic because the ideal woman can shape the women we have today. Not to mention, sexual harassment is still occurring in the workplace, except more women are speaking up. The fact that women had to feel the need to dress more like men to get respect is very unfortunate. Luckily, women have continued to gain larger roles in politics and business or any industry they care about, but we still have quite a way to go.
    • ]]>     2018-05-21 15:22:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/262398244     Women's fashion of the 1960's kfitzpatrick2020 https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/262409036 2018-05-21 15:49:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/262409036 kfitzpatrick2020 https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/262724840 2018-05-22 15:07:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/262724840 Necessity Was The Mother Of Her Style Inventions; Look Good: The Frenchwoman Coco Chanel's basic designs in the early 1900s changed the way women think about clothes (Body Paragraph 2) kfitzpatrick2020 https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/263387791
  • Coco Chanel designer
  • "They called her look a 'glamorization' of poverty"
  • Style was more simple
  • "She changed the way women dressed by finding new ways for them to express themselves with fashion."
  • Created sports clothes to wear while watching sports
    • Jersey had pushed up sleeves
    • Large pockets
  • 1914, jersey, loose dress with jacket
  • "Her style evolved out of necessity and defiance, Time magazine said."
  • "She became a social commentator who used fabric as the medium to reflect the changes in women's attitudes and their perceptions of their role in society at the start of the 20th century, the Sunday Mail said."
  • WWI kept them from using luxurious items and women wanted wear simple clothes 
  • Women who helped with the war needed reasonable clothing
  • Simple styles are comfortable
  • Chanel thought it was okay for women to have similar dresses
  • The creation of a little black dress in 1926
    • ]]>     2018-05-24 15:26:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/263387791     Coco Chanel kfitzpatrick2020 https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/263391827 Sportswear https://www.vogue.com.au/fashion/news/coco-chanel-was-the-original-jersey-girl/news-story/805ae884ab158711852cf19ee817ceed?]]> 2018-05-24 15:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/263391827 Speech Primary Source (Paragraph 3 and Counterargument) kfitzpatrick2020 https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/263397773
  • Shirley Chrisholm
  • "Let me note and try to refute two of the commonest arguments that are offered against this amendment. One is that women are already protected under the law and do not need legislation. Existing laws are not adequate to secure equal rights for women. Sufficient proof of this is the concentration of women in lower paying, menial, unrewarding jobs and their incredible scarcity in the upper level jobs. If women are already equal, why is it such an event whenever one happens to be elected to Congress?"
    • ]]>     2018-05-24 15:54:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/263397773     Women's Clothing Based on Current Events 1900's-1920's (Paragraph 2 and Counterargument) kfitzpatrick2020 https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/263399101
  • End of Victorian Era
  • Unsatisfied with their "roles"
  • Independence
  • Voice in politics
  • Middle and upper class women creating fight for suffrage
  • Women started getting jobs as secretaries which was originally for men
  • Typing skills were important for getting a job in an office
    • Better hours and paid more than a maid
  • In the workplace, women's clothes became not as full and big
    • Simple 
    • Skirts were not as full
    • Masculine details in clothing to make a more powerful appearance
    • Women wore masculine clothing to show strength 
    • "The broad shouldered, sturdy clothing worn as women took care of the home front in WWII and with the shoulder-padded, suit inspired clothing of women climbing the corporate ladder in the 1980s"

    • ]]>     2018-05-24 15:58:21 UTC https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/263399101     Primary Source of Women Suffrage March (Paragraph 1) kfitzpatrick2020 https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/263820676 http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97500068/

    ]]>     2018-05-27 00:04:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/263820676     Feedback nreynolds11 https://padlet.com/kfitzpatrick2020/fc2047qmsx27/wish/263868032 I like how you have organized your Padlet, Kasey.  The outline at the bottom is very clear and helps your reader understand where/how your research fits into your   essay.

    I am having some trouble finding where your research has come from, as you will find in the comments under your body parag. research boxes.  Perhaps you need to paste the link in again?
    Also, I do not see each topic sentence for the body paragraphs.

    Your intro, counter argument, and conclusion are well-formulated in your outline and this should really make writing and editing your essay easier.

    Thesis: 3/3
    Intro: 4/4
    Body Parag.: 11/15 
    Counter par: 4/4
    Conclusion: 4/4

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