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Sporting fashion: outdoor girls 1800 to 1960

  • Alternate title

    Outdoor girls 1800 to 1960

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Abstract

This book offers a stunning visual record of the evolution of women's sporting attire in Western fashion over nearly two centuries. With selections from Keds, Pendleton, and Spalding and garments by Coco Chanel, Claire McCardell, and Jean Patou, among many others, it features familiar names in the development of sport, industry, and dress, as well as significant rediscoveries. Standing at the intersection of the history of fashion and feminism, Sporting Fashion highlights the extraordinary impact of new technologies and evolving social mores on women's clothing for sport. It explores how the basic forms of women's sportswear we know today--from swimsuits to sneakers--were developed and codified during a time when women were achieving more freedom. Full colour illustrations of sport and leisure ensembles are included, along with magazine spreads and archival images. In thematic sections, the authors approach the range of ways women entered into the sporting world--from traveling to calisthenics, golfing to tennis, motorcycling to promenading.

Contents

Forward / Barbara Bundy, Director, FIDM Museum -- Forward / Pauline Willis, Director and CEO, American Federation of Arts -- Forward / Serena Williams -- Introduction -- Stepping outdoors -- Further afield -- Taking the reins -- Making waves -- Subzero style -- Wheels and wings -- Having a ball -- A team effort.

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  • Publication

    New York: American Federation of Arts, 2021

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  • Period

    1800-1960

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  • ISBN

    • 3791359436
    • 9783791359434

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    • "Published on the occasion of the traveling exhibition Sporting fashion: outdoor girls 1800 to 1960, showing in the FIDM Galleries at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, Los Angeles, in summer 2024, and organized by the American Federation of Arts and the FIDM Museum." -- Colophon.
    • Exhibition Itinerary: FIDM Museum at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, Los Angeles (19.05. - 01.08.2020). Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, Florida, March 5-June 6, 2021. The Frick Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 3-September 26, 2021. Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee, July 24-October 16, 2022. Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa, February 11-May 7, 2023. Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York, June 17-September 17, 2023.

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