Talk:Gibson Girl

The Gibson Girl was the personification of the feminine ideal of physical attractiveness as portrayed by the pen-and-ink illustrations of artist Charles Dana Gibson during a 20-year period that spanned the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States. Writers in the 1890s and early 1900s described the “New Woman” as an independent and often well-educated, young woman poised to enjoy a more visible and active role in the public arena than women of preceding generations. They agreed that the Gibson Girl represented the visual ideal of this new phenomenon.

"What did the Gibson Girl look like?"
The Gibson Girl was tall, her slender lines expressing her respectability, while large hips and full bust added to her seductiveness. Wearing a swan-bill corset, she introduced the new fashion fad: the S-curve torso shape. ... The Gibson Girl was calm in spirit, yet self-possessed and poised.

"Where did the term Gibson girl come from?"
A creation from the pen of illustrator Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944), the Gibson Girl came to be viewed as an ideal image of youthful femininity in the early 1890s. Statuesque and athletic, she was a contemporary incarnation of the beautiful, desirable, and modern woman.

Images
File:Eternal-question.gif (100x300) File:Love_in_a_Garden,_Gibson.jpg (123x100) File:Gibson_Girls_Magnifying_Glass_by_Charles_Dana_Gibson.jpg (182x300)

'70s Playboy and/or National Lampoon Parody?
Short feature, line drawings. She retains her aristocratic air whereas the men... do not. Ring any bells? Definitely mid-'70s kencf0618 (talk) 13:48, 19 March 2024 (UTC)