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| | Marie & Nelsigne's Fashions - Photo Description
| 11/20/2007, 04:37 PM
| |  | PHOTO DESCRIPTION
The first photograph (Figure 5) was taken in 1926 in Ludington, Michigan. Nelsigne and her mother, Marie, were visiting her older brother and other family that had settled in the area. Nelsigne is wearing a short, straight dress with a belt tied at the lowered waistline. Her flesh colored stockings reach above her knee and her hair is in finger wave curls.
Marie is w...
Read More | | Tags: fashion, Thing, | | | Marie & Nelsigne's Fashions - Fashionable Dress
| 11/20/2007, 04:36 PM
| |  | FASHIONABLE DRESS
The decade of the 1920s was a period of social revolution for women in the United States. Their less restricted behavior led to many changes in clothing. Pictured in Figure 2, the new silhouette was a flattened bust and narrow hip. (Tortora and Eubank, 2005) After Nelsigne arrived to America in 1924 skirts began to shorten, eventually reaching knee length. One-piece d...
Read More | | Tags: fashion, Look, | | | Marie & Nelsigne's Fashions - Family History
| 11/20/2007, 04:34 PM
| |  | I recently did a paper on my Great-Grandmother's fashions. It will be posted in segments (it was 10 pages!) I hope you enjoy it.
FAMILY HISTORY
Marie Rasmussen was born in Denmark in 1864. (Gregory, October) For her eighth grade graduation, she had to sew her own outfit and if it was at all wrong, it was to be ripped up and remade. (Gregory, November) Marie lived in the outskirts of to...
Read More | | Tags: fashion, Thing, | | | Marie & Nelsigne's Fashions - Time Period
| 11/20/2007, 04:34 PM
| | TIME PERIOD
Before Nelsigne moved to the United States in 1924 there was a revival of the Ku Klux Klan and Time Magazine debuted. In 1920 the Eighteenth Amendment had been enacted, producing a decade of Prohibition. This started the underground ‘speakeasies’ to crop up. When the Amendment was repealed in 1933, these ‘speakeasies’ became the basis for the modern nightclub. Chain stores began to emerge in the 1920s creating a new source of apparel for the public. (Tortora and Eubank, 2005)
Then, when Nelsigne came in 1924 the Ottoman Empire end...
Read More | | Tags: fashion, Thing, | | | History of the Pea Coat
| 11/07/2007, 03:02 PM
| |  | The reefer or pea coat is a loose double breasted jackets with side vents and small collars. It first became prominent during the Crinoline Period of 1850-1869 as a jacket for sailors. Reefers maintained the same shape, style, and coloring for the next century. They were used as jackets for military personnel and as overcoats. In the 1940s there was a small revival or the pea jacket due ...
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