Gibson girl

Look, for example, at our July 1911 cover, with its Gibson girl surfer genteelly shredding the Southern California waves.

From the Gibson Girl to the Land Girl, from the Flapper to the hippy, from Balenciaga to Alexander McQueen, contrasting fashion trends are represented in authentic detail.

Ben Stevens, author of "Rolf Armstrong: The Dream Girls," wrote that Armstrong's work of this period "quickly surpassed the high-fashioned Victorian purity of the 'Gibson Girl,' as depicted by Charles Dana Gibson, Howard Chandler Christy and Harrison Fisher." Rolf's strength, according to Stevens, was his use of pastels "to create a silky, satin-smooth skin tone on his women's faces that was photographically stunning.

A delightful chain of ten fashion models ladies are sketched, each wearing the primary dress shape of her decade, from the Victorian lady to the Gibson Girl! "Out-of-Style" continues to present incredibly detailed, witty summaries of two centuries of evolving "Out-of Style" presents a gold mine of information about vintage fashion evolution over the past two centuries, all attractively organized and illustrated in wonderful little costume parades of figures over the decades, such as the March to Modernity 1900-2000, otherwise titled The Bottom Line About Hemlines, on pages 216-217.

an ex-Floradora chorus girl and Gibson Girl model, was also the perfect model for Brinkley's pen.

Size could both represent the advance of women and their threat to men (as in the appearance of the Gibson Girl).

The drawing depicts a liberated Gibson Girl, with a hand, presumably of a man, reaching between her legs and approximately aligning with a medical illustration, printed on the flyer, of the digestive tract.

Cohan jumped from vaudeville to theater; and Gibson Girl Evelyn Nesbit performed "The Wild Rose." More starry firsts included Douglas Fairbanks, W.C.

She posits that the Gibson Girl, as these illustrations became known, embodied the romantic ideal of the New Woman and was an example of progressive American spirit.

The collection includes a variety of "waists." These are typical of the Gibson Girl of 1899 - a high neck, worn with a simple tie or a frilly and feminine jabot.

At the fin-de-siecle, burlesque pinups gave way to a proliferation of "Gibson girl" imagery in Life magazine.

"Gibson Girl Illustrations: 200 Royalty-Free Designs" (0486997634, $14.95) showcases the turn-of-the-century illustrations of Charles Dana Gibson who became renowned for his ability to capture the style and spirit of the American woman in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth society.