Since the patriarchy was established, they have always looked for ways to submit to women and relegate it to the background.Apart from the social mechanisms they used for this task, fashion played a very important role, the lotus feet entering the scene, dresses too heavy to move or garments that hindered the movement.
However, when the woman got up to occupy the role she deserved in society, fashion accompanied her, born one of the greatest revolutions that this industry has suffered in her history.
Green, white and purple colors
We all have associated with purple as a color representative of feminism, however, what few know is that this comes from the suffragist movement, in which a three -colored code was used to represent it: green, white and purple.
These three colors were not randomly chosen, since in English they share the same initials as the motto of the suffragists: Give Woman The Vote (give the woman the vote), which coincides with Green, White and Violet (green, white and white purple).These three colors began to fill the banners, posters and even the clothes of the suffragists.
As at that time they knew that the image was everything, the suffragists opted for a very delicate fashion, bathed in these colors, which immediately caused a rage and helped more women be interested in movement.To these colors gave a meaning: white was purity, green hope and purple, freedom.
The end of modesty thanks to the bikini
If we have to highlight a garment that has helped female release, it is mandatory to mention the bikini.Since the nineteenth century, modesty has defined women's fashion, even in the moments of leisure and bathroom and, although little by little, those long -sleeved swimsuWorld Cup when the great revolution occurred and the swimsuit became a two -piece suit.
In 1946 Louis Reard presented a new option for the bathroom that at that time caused a great controversy that would not go out until decades later.It should be noted that in his presentation he had to use a stripper because no woman dared to wear such small garments.
After prohibiting a multitude of countries, including Spain, began to popularize and have more acceptance in the 60s.It was then that the feminist movement made it a symbol of the liberation of the female body.
The pants conquest
The pants is the largest symbol of the conquest of women's rights to obtain real equality with men.Although the designer Paul Poiret was the first to include this garment in the women's closet thanks to one of his collections inspired by the East, at the time he was very ridiculed for it, so that his proposal was not accepted and forgot about it.
It was not until much after Coco Chanel initiated one of the greatest revolutions in the fashion world thanks to his invention of the Garçonne style, in which he appropriates typically masculine garments and adds them to the female wardrobe.
Little by little the designer put the pants in the woman's closet and, in her own words, Chanel claimed that she had returned to women her freedom: "I really gave them arms and legs, movements that were authentic and the possibility oflaugh and eat without necessarily having to pass out ".
Sexual liberation and miniskirt
During the 60s the miniskirt not only became a symbol of the liberation of women, but also of the liberation of their sexuality.During World War II, women occupied the role of men and did not want to give up the privileges and autonomy they had enjoyed then.
This autonomy was claimed both in the workplace and in sexual.The appearance of the contraceptive pill allowed women to decide on their own body, how to show it and how they wanted to be, taking the miniskirt, a garment that caused a great controversy, in the symbol of this new freedom for women.
Recently he has once again acquired a great relevance in the feminist movement when in May 1990 the Supreme Court confirmed the "MiniFalda Judgment".According to this sentence, the 17 -year -old “could provoke, if innocently, the businessman Jaime Fontanet for his clothing”, which was a miniskirt and condemning the employer only to pay a fine of 40.000 pesetas (about 240 euros) for violating your employee.
Jewelery as female emancipation
In addition to getting rid of corset and giving us pants, Coco Chanel also contributed feminism with the invention of jewelry.Until the twentieth century, jewels were a symbol of wealth, so when they looked them it was, either they had inherited them, or wealthy men gave them to mark their social status.
At that time, women lacked economic freedom to be able to buy their own jewels and Coco Chanel decidestime they want to carry them paying with their money.
