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" ... Head: His Christy Girl became an icon in America. Women wanted to be her. Men wanted to marry her. During the first decade of the 20th century, major newspapers in the United States held contests to find the perfect personification of the Christy Girl. Any woman, regardless of age or marital status, could enter by sending a photograph to the newspaper editor. Over time, the face and figure of the Christy Girl changed. During World War I, when the United States began mobilizing troops, Christy dressed women in men’s military uniforms to create eye-popping, sexual gender-bender posters that not only compelled thousands of men to enlist, but women as well – a first for the U.S. Armed Forces. In the 1920s, the Christy Girl emerged as the ubiquitous and elegant Jazz Age flapper. By the 1930s, a glamorous, if not sultry, Christy Girl became the face for advertisements, including the famous Lucky Strike cigarette ads. By the 1940s, using his favorite model, Elise Ford, Christy sought to personify America as a beautiful woman representing liberty and freedom. ... "
" ... Instead, our twenties started in a painful way and I think we would all like to enjoy that escape, even if only through a dream. My new collection will be inspired by this: with an explicit 1920s taste, I would like to try to recreate the dusty atmospheres of Charleston, where flapper dancers showed off bright and sparkling looks. ... "
" ... The Art Deco flapper necklaces and ribbon bracelets she produced in the collection, “History of Art Deco,” are contemporary, transformable and are designed to be worn by women and men. She describes the collection as a “declaration of freedom and style,” inspired by the period where women asserted their identity by wearing masculine clothes, high-waist pants, long necklaces and short hair. ... "
" ... What then do we make of all the gold embellishments, the flapper dresses, and the exuberant prints seen on the Milan spring 2012 runways? Are we headed for better days? Will the global economy be on the upswing when these clothes make it to the stores in February? Or do the glitz and swingy vibes serve merely as diversions from all the bad news? An escapist’s route? ... "