#AnIdealWoman
Image from the Library of Congress
“Picturesque America, anywhere in the mountains” by Charles Dana Gibson, c. 1900
The Gibson Girl was a mainstream fashion ideal who became popular at the same time as the New Woman, but was less overtly transgressive. The Gibson Girl was an unachievable combination of dainty and athletic, curvy with a tiny waist, independent enough to not be a gold-digger, but not so independent she would want to work or vote for herself.