WOMEN IN KING EDWARDS ERA. In 1900 tailored and tailor made suits were firmly established. Women entering more commercial workplace found it a useful all purpose outfit. Men objected to the tailor made female suit as they saw it representing a challenge to their authority. But Women seemed to be making a clear …show more content…
By the end of the decade the most fashionable skirts cleared the floor and approached the ankle. The overall silhouette narrowed and straightened, beginning a trend that continuedinto the years leading up to the Great War. STYLE GALLERY 1900-1910. Charles Dana Gibson’s Cartoonist character “Gibson Girl” Her clothes were fashionable in both America and Britain and set a fashion for the narrow, gored skirt worn with an embroidered blouse or 'shirtwaist'. Another Gibson look was a shirt collar worn with a tie, a floppy artist bow, a tie neck cravat with stickpin bar brooch or a crosscut ruffled jabot. It is also said that King Edward had a penchant for mature, buxom women. This led to an even stronger societal preference for older, curvaceous versions of beauty, including a love of gray and white hair. Automobile Revolution. RISE OF HAUTE COUTURE. MEN’S