Gibson girl

The idea of female beauty has changed throughout history, ranging from celebrating maternal curves to imposing ideals of a skinnier representation of

Gibson Girls. The Gibson Girl was the personification of the feminine ideal of beauty portrayed by the satirical pen-and-ink illustrations of illustrator Charles Dana Gibson during a 20-year period that spanned the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in the United States. Some people argue that the Gibson Girl was the first national beauty standard for American women. Gibson's fictional images of her published in newpapers and magazines during the Belle Époque were extremely popular.

The graphic image literally crazed the Americans At the end of the 19th and early 20th century, a role model in the… by godflesh

Annabelle Whitford & The Gibson Girl, the idealization of women at the turn of the century, featuring Annabelle, Evelyn Nesbit, Camille Clifford & Mrs. Gibson

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The Gibson Girl began appearing in the 1890s and was the personification of the feminine ideal of physical attractiveness portrayed by the ...

The favorite hairstyle of Edwardian Gibson Girls was the pompadour hairstyle. They wore it as an everyday hairstyle and for formal events.

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