Back Quote by Lucy Worsley

The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But…

— Helen Fisher

That so-called feminine ardor for clothes shopping had been flagging for some time. Between 1980 and 1986, at the same time that women were…

— Susan Faludi

You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?

— L'Wren Scott

If there was a time period I could be in, costume-wise, I'd like to be in something with corsets. Like the 1910s, that kind…

— Emily Hampshire

Women of the 60s revolutionised fashion for us. They took the hem lines up so we could feel young, and free, and do things…

— Dawn O'Porter

When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals.

— James Laver

Between the postwar fifties - domesticity, people happy to be alive after the Second World War, wanting to build a home, make a family,…

— Sally Potter

In the early forties and fifties almost everybody "had about enough to live on," and young ladies dressed well on a hundred dollars a…

— M. E. W. Sherwood

In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn't really have enough men around to fill all the jobs. So there was…

— Gail Collins

For women, World War II had offered an opportunity, and often the necessity, to get out of the house to work.

— Cathleen Schine

There were so many women who had worked throughout the war in every possible job. They were told, "Now leave, so the men can…

— Geena Davis

. .women are house as well as factory slaves and are forced to bear a double workload.

— Clara Zetkin