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FCS 490R Fashion History. Study: Speakeasies and Gangster Fashion

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  Study: Speakeasies and Gangster Fashion Speakeasy Smuggling Fashion During Prohibition, Americans were desperate to find a way to get their alcohol. Many methods for smuggling drinks internationally were adopted. One was the cow shoe – an attachment to the soles of men’s shoes worn when bringing alcohol across the border from Canada. When walking with this shoe attachment, smugglers could leave tracks looking only like cow hoofprints. If an officer came looking for the source of the smuggling, they would only see cow tracks and might not think to trace the prints to their source, since they weren’t looking for cows so much as they were looking for the people breaking the law. Additionally, women found a major role in smuggling alcohol into the country. Because of the lack of a woman’s status in society during this time, many states had laws prohibiting police from searching women, who were seen as a delicate sex in need of protection. This desire to preserve the dignity of wome
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FCS 490R Fashion History. Midterm: Half-Scale Recreation Project

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  Half-Scale Recreation Project 1800's English Regency Dress, Half Size 14 Elizabeth Gibbons Sister Orme Regency England Dress Research November 16, 2020 Regency England Dress Research From the early 1800’s to approximately the 1830’s, the standards and customs of dress in England took a surprising turn. Where tight-fitting corsets and hooped petticoats were the norm in the previous century, a completely different direction was taken at the start of the 19 th century. During this time, empire waisted dresses became the norm in fashion, so full whaleboned corsets became less necessary. In addition, inspiration was taken from the fashion of Ancient Greece, and the skirts on dresses draped close to the body. There are differences in dresses found in the 1800’s, the 1810’s and the 1820’s, so I had to choose one decade to detail my dress from. After researching each decade, I decided to design a dress in a style most closely reminiscent of the 1810’s. Around this time,
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