Well, the main look that women in this era wanted to copy was that of the Gibson Girl. Instead of being based on a real human being, though, it was the design of an artist called Charles Gibson, who was highly influential in the fashion world at the start of the 1900s. And when the popular style magazines such as Harper’s, LIFE, and Collier’s published the images of his ideal woman, their readers soon began to aspire to look the same.
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