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Fashioning the New Woman: 1890-1925

Start Date 05 October 2012
End Date 31 August 2013
Venue DAR Museum
Location Washington D.C., USA
Curator Alden O’Brien
Exhibition with exhibition title on the wall and two mannequins displaying garments.
Exhibition with text reading Timeline of Fashion on the wall and mannequins displaying garments.
Exhibition with text reading The Sporting Life on the wall and mannequins displaying garments.
Exhibition with mannequins displaying garments.
Exhibition with mannequins displaying garments.
Exhibition with mannequins displaying garments.
Exhibition with texts panels and a mannequin displaying garments.

From the last years of the bustle to the flapper era, unprecedented changes in women’s fashion took place, which reflected the underlying seismic shifts in women’s roles in American society. The DAR Museum exhibition, “Fashioning the New Woman: 1890-1925,” on display October 5, 2012 through August 31, 2013, traces the evolution of women’s fashion and how it reflected the changing societal roles and activities of women during the Progressive Era.

The exhibition examines the emergence of the “New Woman” as she was dubbed in popular culture. This archetypal woman represented the growing numbers of women venturing out of the domestic arena where society had told them they belonged and pursuing higher education, working in office jobs, playing active sports and working for social reform.

Images courtesy of American History TV.