Articles written by Ann W. Braaten

Ann W. Braaten|Aug 24, 2020

When suffrage activists began staging parades in 1908 to bring attention to their cause, organizers instructed women marchers to look their best. They followed New York women labor organizers' successful strategy to appear as appealing and feminine as possible to avoid being stereotyped by anti-suffragists as unattractive crones and aggressive hellions, according to T. J. Boisseau in "Women Workers and Suffrage." What was known as the lingerie dress - made of thin white linen or cotton fabric...