Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century

Discover the iconic dresses that defined a century of women's fashion and empowerment in this beautifully illustrated social history.

While women's liberation has often been framed by the growing acceptance of pants, the most influential female fashions of the 20th century featured skirts. Skirts traces the shifting roles of women through the era's game-changing styles, from suffragists marching in skirts to Civil Rights heroines taking a stand in them. Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keeffe revol...