12. Pants: The Truth About Dress Reform

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12. Pants: The Truth About Dress Reform

1. By the aptly named designer Amy Sly, www.buzzfeed.com/sly/am-i-wearing-pants.

2. James Laver, Costume and Fashion: A Concise History (New York: Thames & Hudson, 2002), 15.

3. Quentin Bell, On Human Finery, rev. ed. (London: Hogarth Press, 1976), 64–65.

4. Rosalie Kolodny, Fashion Design for Moderns (New York: Fairchild, 1968), 103.

5. Judith Thurman, “Closet Encounters: Charting the Rise of the Fashionable American Woman,” The New Yorker (May 10, 2010), www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/artworld/2010/05/10/100510craw_artworld_thurman.

6. Joseph H. Hancock II and Edward Augustyn, “Pants, Trousers,” in Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, vol. 10, Global Perspectives.

7. Key Moments in Fashion: From Haute Couture to Streetwear, Key Collections, Major Figures and Crucial Moments That Changed the Course of Fashion History from 1890 to the 1990s (London: Hamlyn, 1998), 101.

8. Shaun Cole, “Lesbian and Gay Dress,” in Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, vol. 8, West Europe.