Posts Tagged: Gibson Girl
Welcome to Flashback Friday, where we take a look at a fascinating bit of pop culture history, usually from 19th century America. A couple of weeks after doing a post on The Gibson Girl, I ran across this fabulous post on Evelyn Nesbit, one of the models for the Gibson Girl. It’s from Jan Whitaker’s blog,…
Today’s flashback looks at a popular phenomenon of the late-19th and early-20th centuries, the “Gibson Girl.” She was the creation of artist Charles Dana Gibson (for a detailed biography, click here), and she was everywhere: in the magazines of Life, Collier’s Weekly, Harper’s, and Scribner’s, to name the major ones. Her look was iconic, and quickly…
