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
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,
Chapter Nine Chapter Nine: The 17th Century 1600-1700 1. Basque- Rebecca Odd An extension of the bodice that would go below the waistline over the top of the wide skirt. https://thecolorainbow.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/17-century/ https://ateliernostalgia.wordpress.com/2017/11/20/1660s-bodice-foundations/ 2. Biggin- Angel Cooper "A term for a child’s cap shaped like a coif” "A man’s night-cap worn in bed." From the textbook (page 259), "For an infant in the 17th century a layette would have consisted of swaddling brands, bibs, caps (also called Biggins), shirts, mittens, and sleeves..." http://www.kipar.org/archive/costume-workshop/part5_1costume-focus.html (Links to an external site.) https://www.bloomsburyfashioncentral.com/products/berg-fashion-library/dictionary/the-dictionary-of-fashion-history/biggin-biggon 3. Carrying Frock/Going Frock- Amber Davidson Textbook mentions that infants unable to walk were dressed in long gowns called carrying
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