When the Girls Came Out to Play: The Birth of American Sportswear
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (805 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1558495495 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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An invaluable book on the History of Active Sport in the USA Barbara Kerin I teach a course about Active Sport Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology. This book is filled with important history about the development of sportswear in the United States as we know it today. The beginnings of which revolve around the participation of women in active sports, games and gym . Excellent Scholarship Philosophe I used this book as a major source for my thesis paper to earn a Bachelor's in History. It is an excellent resource for anyone interested in women's studies - especially in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century America. Campbell Warner combines a plethora of gender/cultural/social/historical/fas
Patrick Campbell Warner is professor of theater at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
With wit and personal activities anecdotes, she reveals the rationale for the evolution in fashions from body-restricting women's Victorian styles to loose, comfortable, informal modern wear. Patricia Warner has long been considered the expert in this field and numerous scholars have been anxiously awaiting the publication of this book."Gayle V. This pioneering work should spawn further women's history studies."Choice. social history: how informal clothing developed in the 1800s in response to middle-class leisure activities, competitive sports, and attitudes related to health. "This will be the book on women and sport clothing and will no doubt open the doors for additional research on the topic. Fischer, author of Pantaloons and Power:A Ninetee
A study of the evolution of American women's clothing, When the Girls Came Out to Play traces the history of modern sportswear as a universal style that broke down traditional gender roles. Behind this development was a growing interest in sports and exercise that was further nurtured by the establishment of schools of higher education for women.The participation of women in athletic pursuits previously reserved for men began with the relatively genteel sports of croquet and tennis. Many of these new outfits featured trousers, garments considered taboo for women, though they often remained hidden beneath voluminous skirts.Over time, however, the practicality and versatility of such clothing led to social acceptance, laying the foundation for the emergence of the now ubiquitous yet distinctly American style known as sportswear. Patricia Warner shows how this profound cultural shift, which did not reach fruition until