爵士时代时髦女郎的文化历史渊源

时髦女郎是美国爵士时代的新女性 ,菲茨杰拉德作为爵士时代的代言人在作品中刻画了这一类人。这类人的产生不是偶然的 ,时髦女郎是时代的产物 ,其形成有社会、文化、历史等方面的原因     

Fashionable Females: Women,Clothes, and Culture in New York

Abstract

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2010 ‘American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity’ exhibition explored the evolution of female fashion from 1890–1940, a period when the role of women in society developed rapidly. This article examines two of the cultural roles that fashion helped to define: the heiress figure of the 1890s, and the 1920s flapper. Both types of fashion identity had a distinctive look, such as the corseted waist and moulded silhouette of the 1890s dresses, and the shorter skirts and dropped waist of the later flapper fashions. Focusing on these two models of womanhood, the article explores the idea of fashion more generally in two novels that discuss these figures: the heiress in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (1905) and the flapper in Anita Loos’ Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925).