"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest feais that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous ? Actually, who are you not to be ? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
[Inauguration Speech of Nelson Mandela, 1994. The sentence “As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” is from Marianne Williamson.]
THE GANGSTER:
With his Borsalino, one could have believed in Al Capone but he wears a skirt in silk muslin on boots out of leather. We are in New York, Winter 2007. The shouldered jacket is in black woollen article.
Gabrielle Loodts October 2007.
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Dawn:
The day rises on the city. They met in a dancing of the city. She wears a nice silk black dress with naked back. He wears a wind-breaker, a scarf of red color and a skirt in thick fabric. Gabrielle Loodts April 2006.
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STORM OF COLORS:
Storm of colors in Galliano style...
Dress out of silk with printed and make-up multi colors.
Gabrielle Loodts. October 18, 2008.
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The train's driver:
He connects Adelaide to Darwin by Alice Springs. 47 hours of voyage, 2 nights on board and 2979 km through Outback.... Gabrielle Loodts September 2006.
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The garçonnes or the first women in trousers.
Introduction
Less than one hundred years before the movement of the men out of Skirts, there were the women in trousers.... This article pays homage to these women pionnières who had courage to face the homophobie, with the mockeries, with the disapproval of the society during the decade 1920-1930 while carrying the trousers. By adopting the dress of the men, they were the precursors of the movement of emancipation and liberalization of the women.
Poses calculated or urgent seized by the photographer ?
"the garçonne with the car".
La garçonne.
Symbol of the Mad years, the garçonne, with her cut hair, her shortened dresses, her tubular look is a figure of androgyne mode which hesitates between masculine and invention of a new femininity. She incarne, in ambiguous manner, the emancipation of the women. The adversaries with this emancipation did not fail to compare the garçonnes to the lesbians, thus using the homophobie against the women. Thus, since 1889, we estimate that we almost always can suspect a homosexuality among women who carry the short hair or which gets dressed like men or who practise the sports of the men. The sign of the sex by clothing is indeed at that time a fundamental cultural feature. It assigns each sex in its place in all the manifestations of the social life. However, in this century marked by the male domination, to adopt the dress of the men is a gesture of stamping. Women face to the sarcastic remarks become models for the women witch like freedom: Rosa Happiness, George Sand, exploring Jane Dieulafoy or the writter Rachilde wear the male dress.
Short cut and squared said precisely "to the garçonne"
Louise Brooks.
In 1920, the short cut and squared said precisely "to the garçonne" holds the top of the paving stone while the movie inaugurates the legendary career of star like Louise Brooks. The opponents of the emancipation of the women make run the rumour that the short cuts cause baldnesses, or, on the contrary, activate the pilosity of the face... But a new femininity is invented : The released neck and the nape of the neck emphasize outer earrings. On the stripped arms scintillate of many rigid bracelets, tightened "with the slave" while the movement of the body is underlined by many jewels imagination and pins...
New femininity: the released nape of the neck emphasizes large collars.
Louise Brooks
The arrival of the trousers
The appearance of the trousers In 1924, the Skirts are "short": on average to 26 cm of the ground. In 1925, they are to 30 or 35 cm of the ground. In 1926, they are to 40 cm then lengthen gradually until 1930 when they will be stabilized to 30 or 32 cm of the ground. But with the garçonne, male wardrobe enters the female cloakroom. It is not a question of vestimentary eccentricity but falls under a progress of feminism. The equality of the sexes seems initially like a negation of femininity and a will to imitate the men. The trousers, symbol of virility appears at the end of the Twenties in female wardrobe even they are already used since 1920 for horsemanship, hunting or golf. They also exist in the form of silk pyjamas to replace the housecoat since 1924. With the variation of the changes, the countryside will remain a long time faithful to its vestimentary traditions and its regional costumes. Thus, a long time, some priests will refuse the communion with the girls in trousers. The public school will hardly be shown more tolerant by prohibiting the trousers until the end of the Sixties, except during the winter rigours, provided that it is carried under the Skirt. In 1930, the women's right to get dressed as a man is even discussed in front of the courts. Thus, Violette Morris, catch of the sporting female Federation of France carries felt sorry for because its federation withdrew her licence because of her behaviour considered to be too male. To 37 years, she increases very short cut hair, the trousers and jacket with tie. she will be even marked by the rumour to have to remove her too prominent chest to drive its car... The court will declare that "to carry trousers not allowed for women, the sporting female federation of France had perfectly the right to prohibit it"...
The actress Charlotte Andler in 1929.
Jacket, trousers, shirt, bow tie, gloves.
Male wardrobe enters the female cloakroom.
Nevertheless, these courageous women will triumph over the aesthetic divergences, morals and policies to enter manners and to thus open the way of the modern woman such as we know it today.
Bibliography:
"Les Garçonnes. Modes et fantasmes des années folles".
Christine Bard, Paris, Flammarion, 1998.
Short cut and squared said precisely "to the garçonne"
Louise Brooks.
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The coat "bar":
Militant opposed to the death penalty in the United States. The coat "bar": symbol of the rebellion.
Gabrielle Loodts. Special Cubism Collection. May 2007.
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The manga:
He knows that he gives to the others the appearance of an animated manga. But he projects human being towards the perfect one, the godlike beauty... and he meets God at each crossroads.... From now on, he fixes the horizon at far with determination. His life is a heaventy search.
Gabrielle Loodts. November 2006.
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Cristelle Dupuis
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Je suis creatrice de cravates originales pour hommes et bientot prete a me lancer dans l'aventure de commercialiser mes creations.
Un de mes projets est de creer aussi des jupes pour hommes.
Je trouve dommage de voir le peu de choix reels dans la mode masculine. Seulement depuis quelques annees les choses bougent de ce cote la mais d'une lenteur incroyable.
Marre de voir les hommes porter des couleurs si classiques a moins de porter des t-shirts plus tres originaux.
J'aimerais voir les jambes poilues et viriles gambader sous une jupe, qu'un coup de vent malicieux laisserait entrevoir et deviner un peu plus de l'anatomie masculine.
Aussi, quel sentiment de liberte de porter robes et jupes.
Je trouve tres attirant un homme portant la jupe, c'est sexy, elegant, original et...tres viril !
En decouvrant ce site, j'ai ete charmee par la presentation, l'idee et toutes les choses interessantes et instructives que l'on peut y trouver.
Gabrielle, c'est du beau boulot. Bravo
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John Dee
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Dear fashion freaks,
I discovered a few months ago that wearing kilts and kilt like skirts is remarkably comfortable.
Wearing jeans for years, I always felt confined both morally and physically. Sometimes to the point of pain.
I love your drawings!
Cheerios!
John
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Pierre Fitte
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- added 26/06/2010.
Depuis plus d'un an je porte la jupe et des collants opaques ( poils des jambes) en hiver et en été je prefere les jupes courtes , au dessus du genou pour la ville, relativement près du corps, ou encore ample et avec beaucoup de plis fçon kilt mais dans des tissus en coton.
Sinon je porte aussi et c'est tres simple a réaliser , un pagne. dans un tissus écossais en coton environ 60 cm de haut et environ 2Metres de long juste enroulé autour de la taille. J'ai découpé plusieurs hauteurs ce qui me permets d' avoir une mini jupe, une jupe courte, une jupe jusqu'au mollet et une se cerémonie qui couvre le dessus de pieds.
Les jupes de gabrielles sont absoluement remarquables et sont les plus adaptées et je lui souhaite ce poursuivre dans cette voie.. Même si dans notre trou on se sent un peu seul, mais bien dans sa tête et dans son corps, on attire les sourrire entendus des femmes qui ont du de savoir vivre
et de certains homme amusés.
BON COURAGE A TOUS , L'ESSAYER c'est l'ADOPTER
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