A Champion for All Seasons

Wearing a high-necked dress with puffed sleeves and narrow waist, Lizzie Stride (1877-1919) looks like the perfect Gibson girl, the idealized American young woman of the 1890s created by popular illustra­tor Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944) and copied at the turn of the century by scores of commercial artists. Like the Gibson girl – images of whom eventually appeared on early automobile...
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