A Champion for All Seasons
Posted by Barbara Gregorich on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on 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...read more