Dress Reform and Fashion
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https://doi.org/10.47611/jsrhs.v11i2.2537Keywords:
fashion, feminism, corset, dress reform, gender, womenAbstract
From the early 1820s through the mid-1850s, a dress reform movement to emancipate women from tight-lacing and corsets became prominent. Living in the prevailing gender hierarchy, male reformers and female authors took different approaches to express their arguments and participate in the public discourse. Although women’s clothing may have started as the instrument of misogynistic fetish, it has also become a medium to advocate women’s agency when women take control. Society’s expectation on how female members should appear remains prevalent in modern days.
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