Rational Dress Society

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
politics	Oscar Wilde	Wilde (before the formation of the Rational Dress Society ) argued against tight-lacing dresses both in terms of health and in terms of aesthetics, and lobbied instead for loose dresses falling from the shoulder, which...
politics	Charlotte Stopes	CS was involved in the campaign for women's suffrage and the Rational Dress Society , which she ran in conjunction with Constance Wilde . Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
politics	Sarah Grand	SG campaigned for the Rational Dress Movement, which gained momentum in the 1880s when Lady Harberton established the Rational Dress Society (1881). Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press, 1983. 51-2 The movement sought to release women from the constraints of huge hoop...
Textual Features	Sarah Grand	The tone of this novel is one of serious lecturing Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press, 1983. 36 in turn with SG 's membership of the Rational Dress Society . Heilmann suggests it could be categorised as conduct literature. Heilmann, Ann. New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird. Manchester University Press, 2004. 28 SG provides...
Textual Features	Charlotte Eliza Humphry	CEH 's writing, characterized by a friendly and humorous tone, sets out to make social norms and expectations palatable to a mass readership. Manners for Women opens with a chapter on The Girl in Society...

Timeline

1881

Lady Harberton founded the Rational Dress Society which proposed dress reform for women, denounced tight-lacing and high heels, and advocated divided skirts.

Kunzle, David. Fashion and Fetishism: A Social History of the Corset, Tight-Lacing and Other Forms of Body-Sculpture in the West. Rowman and Littlefield, 1982.

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Gernsheim, Alison. Victorian and Edwardian Fashion: A Photographic Survey. Dover, 1981.

Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.

1899

A lawsuit was brought against Martha Sprague , landlady of the Hautboy Inn at Ockham in Surrey, after she refused to serve Viscountess Harberton , founder of the Rational Dress Society , with lunch...

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