[Re]Fashioning the New Woman: Women's Dress, the Oriental Style, and the Construction of American Feminist Imagery in the 1910s

摘要: This article examines feminists’ use of fashion in the 1910s, arguing that and appearance became an important factor construction New Woman image integral part feminist ideology period. It explores how adopting adapting Oriental style, which came to dominate women’s at time, enabled feminists construct a modern political identity, while simultaneously situating themselves as fashionable trendy. Analyzing different ways employed express their views identities furthers understanding connections between consumer culture feminism—New Women did not see opposing ideas, but useful way achieve them. In considering role constructing identities, this thus rethinks broadens meanings early-twentieth-century politics include wider range issues beyond struggles for suffrage.