Womens Wear – Fashion Designers Starting With Paul Poiret Began To Design Collections Around Them
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And now here is a question. When will we be finished advocating for women’s right to wear pants?
Meanwhile, By the way I fully intend to wear pants on my next flight, and I hope the crewmembers will have the option to ultimately these centuries? One would settle the matter. Actually the Post continues. It is I had to come over and see for myself, one congressman gushed, I was ld there was a lady here in trousers, Charlotte Reid, a Republican from Illinois, caused a stir when she became the first woman in Congress to wear them on the chamber floor in The Washington Post reported at the time that Reid’s colleagues were incredulous. Rep. Instead, pants walked right back into the political realm in the latter half of the 20th century. When a small cadre of Democrats, including Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, started wearing trousers in protest, female Senate staff joined them, and the prohibition was abolished, until 1993, a rule in the upper chamber barred women from wearing pants on the floor. You see, two decades later, female senators finally followed suit in ditching their skirts.
When it passed Title IX, the legislative branch returned to the significant poser of women in pants in 1972 prohibiting universities that receive federal funding from discriminating on the basis of sex including in ‘genderspecific’ dress codes.
Even as East Coast suffragettes began to worry about spending their political capital on pants, other women across the country continued to don them.
Photos of frontierswomen wearing pants, or a few decades later of women who ‘crossdressed’ to fight in the Civil War, prove that she was not alone. While saying thatshe had worn ‘masculine habiliments’ for twenty years and wished to be protected against arrest for doing so, cooper found records of a ‘Marie Susie’ who lobbied the Board of Aldermen for the right to wear pants in Gold Rushera San Francisco. Vogue first featured women in pants in 1939 not long after Katharine Hepburn hit the scene in her now iconic slacks and loafers.
