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Date of upload: Sep 29, 2022 ^^
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The Gibson girl seemed to have had affect down south in Mexico, I have a series of family photos from 1890-1925 and there's this one photo of my great tĂa from around 1900-ish where she's posed similar to 15:45, with similar clothes, except she had a chicken perched on her arm like a parrot on a pirate's arm. It's one of my favourite family photos.
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My great-aunt was a hat model of the Gibson Girl prototype in St. Paul, Minnesota. I have several sepia-toned portraits of her dressed in this style. She was exceptionally striking and quite the drama queen. I remember visiting her home as a child in the 1950âs and being honored with full access to her dress-up clothing, jewels, and accessories. Along with her Gibson Girl wardrobe she also had a grand collection of elegant Flapper ensembles. I thought she was the catâs meow. Everyone else in the family hated her except her sweet, younger sister (my maternal grandmother). Thank you for this wonderful video!
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As a lesbian, it was Gibson girl aesthetic characters that were my first crushes as a young kid. Something about the hair, the silhouette, the slight smile, was just so captivatingly beautiful to me that I couldnât look away, and didnât know why. I know why now ⤠Amazing video as always Kaz!
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I love this video. :)
On why so many famous Gibson girls didn't have happy endings: I tend to subscribe to the journalist Michael Hobbes' description of fame as a form of abuse. The constant scrutiny and impossible standards, especially when applied to someone still developing their adult identity, can be profoundly damaging. And, well, profoundly damaged people often get damaged some more. Take Evelyn Nesbit; she never had a good, caring support system, ended up trading on her beauty because she believed it was all she had, and found herself the target of multiple predators. It's not really surprising that things got worse from there. Some people beat the odds, but most don't; it's why they're the odds.
I don't know about all Gibson's models, but I do know that women who sought work as artist's models in this period often lacked support systems and turned to modeling because they had no better options. It wasn't the sort of thing wealthy girls did for fun, and middle-class girls with good prospects were less likely to endanger their reputations by engaging in it. That left girls who were choosing between modeling and something like factory labor, service work, or something further down the social ladder like s*x work. Of course, modeling was easier and less demeaning than those options ... and of course, they were less able to defend themselves against abuse than women with more resources who wouldn't be modeling in the first place. The same thing happens in entertainment today.
Take someone desperate, make them famous, and throw them to the wolves...tale as old as time. Or at least as old as the industrial revolution in media.
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My great grandmother was born in the 19th century, though she would never tell anyone exactly when. She lived with us when I was a teenager, in the 60's, and I got a close look at her personal habits. When I was introduced to the work of Charles Dana Gibson, I realized that the hairdo that my great-grandmother wore until the bitter end was the updo that Gibson's girls wore. Imagine the effort that she put in during her lifetime, maintaining that youthful style.
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You can definitely still see the Gibson girl in art today. The tired eyes and messy hair, Iâve noticed, are a staple in many artists art styles today, including my own. In that way I think the Gibson girl has had her third revival as Iâve seen it often in the last few months. Though sheâs lost her fashion her cadence and strength is definitely still prevalent.
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I became aware of Gibson and its girls from an early age because my mom always took us to museums or art expositions, so I saw reproductions of Gibson's art but not originals since I'm from Mexico. Especially since my mom loves those illustrations too and also because I draw. Making me to be always looking to many different styles of art. So yeah, I'm a fan of Gibson amazing illustrations though I never got hooked up on the fashion. But his technique... My goodness. Love that drawing technique.
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