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Fashion History Mystery #52: Driving Fashion
Published 5 years, 6 months ago
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This week we explore the symbiotic relationships between modern women, fashion, and cars at the dawn of the twentieth century.
Recommended reading:
- Georgine Clarsen's Eat My Dust: Early Women Moderists
- Emily Remus's A Shoppers’ Paradise: How the Ladies of Chicago Claimed Power and Pleasure in the New Downtown
- A'Lelia Bundles's On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker
- Dorothy Levitt's 1909 guidebook https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Woman_and_the_Car/OkxVAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Dorothy+Levitt+dedicated+an+entire+chapter+in+her+1909+book+The+Woman+and+the+Car&printsec=frontcover
- FIDM's "Traveling Duster" blog: https://blog.fidmmuseum.org/museum/2010/09/traveling-dusters.html
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