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 ...
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 Twelve Chapter Twelve: The Romantic Era 1. Allison Boyes: Bishop Sleeve A bishop sleeve during this period was made with a row of vertical pleats at the shoulder that released into a soft full sleeve gathered to a fitted cuff at the writ. This style of bishop sleeve was popular until the 1840’s. Sleeves during this time had removable cotton or linen linings that allowed regular laundering. The bishop sleeve was considered more practical than the gigot sleeve because it could be rolled up to do chores or jobs. The bishop sleeve gathers at the upper arm, not the shoulder. 2. Burnous - Allison Boyes A burnous, is a cloak worn by women that is very loose in shape so that it can easily drape over the large hoop skirts. It is a large mantle of about three quarter length with a hood, and the name and style deriving from a similar garment worn by arabs who lived in the middle eastern deserts. “draping into a hooded swath at the back and tied at the front neckline b...
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