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janey-jane:
tiny, messy, lunch break sketches absolutely MUST include wonder woman rn…
I love love LOVED this look (and i want to do a more finished piece with it eventually). i can’t not go hard about costuming and the history of dress and i’m going to flail about this for a sec. Costume designer Lindy Hemming clearly knew what she was doing. This wasn’t just a “this outfit is plain and practical after those nonsense ‘fashionable’ options” it was a definite, intentional nod to WWI Women’s uniforms (and Diana is going to the front, it makes sense for her to be in something uniform-ish).
Although WWII is better known for women going to work for the first time (i.e. the iconic ‘Rosie the Riveter’) - women absolutely served in various capacities in WWI and were considered crucial to the war effort. Even though most of the women who served still did so in tradition-friendly roles of relief & aid work, WWI is notable in that it was one of the first times that women served either in an enlisted or civilian capacity in uniform.
Here are some examples of WWI women’s uniforms to show the clear tie between these and Diana’s outfit:
Women’s Motor Corps 1916-1918 (American) - If you look at men’s uniforms from the same time period the core design elements are basically identical, they’ve just been ‘feminized’ in the women’s versions.
UK army recruits 1917 (check out those hats! definite link between those and Diana’s, Also the clear distinction between what’s worn by the recruits and the commander)
Women Police Service, 1916 (British) - women served in uniform at home - filling traditionally male roles while men were away (MOST women served at home, with a relatively small % actually ending up at the front). below are some women firefighters in london around the same time wearing similar uniforms (i can barely go down a ladder period, much less do so with someone over my shoulder - so badass!!!):
The costuming design is perfect in context of the movie’s storyline, wonder woman as a property, and as a tribute to the tens of thousands of women who enlisted and volunteered during the war and it made me SO HAPPY.
*side note - while pulling together these photos I learned about the Women’s Death Battalions (no, seriously) and Holy. CRAP. apparently around 6,000 russian women were actual combatants during the war and not just aid & relief and jfc how had I never heard about this? the rest of the world is like “we guess women can be nurses and ambulance drivers, we are so progressive!!!” meanwhile russia: GETS TIRED OF WOMEN DISGUISING THEMSELVES AS MEN AND SNEAKING INTO THE ARMY. FORMS WOMEN-ONLY UNITS AND CALLS THEM ‘BATTALIONS OF DEATH’*
My Great-Aunt Esther served! Her uniform is on display in the NY State Museum currently, but the exhibit caption omits that it served double-duty– when she got home, her sweetheart met her off the troop transport, and married her right away, so it was her wedding dress too.
The only photo I can find is of a family portrait of us next to it, but, you get the idea.
(It’s the blue one. The woman on the right is my mother, her uh actually I don’t know if she was my mother’s aunt or great-aunt, I’m mortified to admit. Sorry, that’s the best photo I have; the woman on the left is my older sister and the kids are my mom’s various grandkids. [The blurry one is Farmbaby, the other three are my older sister’s.])
She was an Army nurse, and did serve at the front. I remember her, but unfortunately I was too little to think to ask her much about it. We had family reunions where we kept up the various family tombstones in the cemetery; after she passed, there was a flag by the stone, because she was a veteran, while her husband was not.
Oh– my god– I just Googled the exhibit and there’s! a whole! exhibit pamphlet!! With photos of her and her uniform and– oh my gosh!! I don’t know if my mother knows about this. It’s a PDF, here– Esther Denison Haswell, In Love And War.
Her husband was prohibited from enlisting because he worked for the railway, I never knew that. Oh how fascinating. Anyway– there’s some information, there, about American women who served! This is more informative than I thought I was going to be!
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janey-jane:
tiny, messy, lunch break sketches absolutely MUST include wonder woman rn…
I love love LOVED this look (and i want to do a more finished piece with it eventually). i can’t not go hard about costuming and the history of dress and i’m going to flail about this for a sec. Costume designer Lindy Hemming clearly knew what she was doing. This wasn’t just a “this outfit is plain and practical after those nonsense ‘fashionable’ options” it was a definite, intentional nod to WWI Women’s uniforms (and Diana is going to the front, it makes sense for her to be in something uniform-ish).
Although WWII is better known for women going to work for the first time (i.e. the iconic ‘Rosie the Riveter’) - women absolutely served in various capacities in WWI and were considered crucial to the war effort. Even though most of the women who served still did so in tradition-friendly roles of relief & aid work, WWI is notable in that it was one of the first times that women served either in an enlisted or civilian capacity in uniform.
Here are some examples of WWI women’s uniforms to show the clear tie between these and Diana’s outfit:
Women’s Motor Corps 1916-1918 (American) - If you look at men’s uniforms from the same time period the core design elements are basically identical, they’ve just been ‘feminized’ in the women’s versions.
UK army recruits 1917 (check out those hats! definite link between those and Diana’s, Also the clear distinction between what’s worn by the recruits and the commander)
Women Police Service, 1916 (British) - women served in uniform at home - filling traditionally male roles while men were away (MOST women served at home, with a relatively small % actually ending up at the front). below are some women firefighters in london around the same time wearing similar uniforms (i can barely go down a ladder period, much less do so with someone over my shoulder - so badass!!!):
The costuming design is perfect in context of the movie’s storyline, wonder woman as a property, and as a tribute to the tens of thousands of women who enlisted and volunteered during the war and it made me SO HAPPY.
*side note - while pulling together these photos I learned about the Women’s Death Battalions (no, seriously) and Holy. CRAP. apparently around 6,000 russian women were actual combatants during the war and not just aid & relief and jfc how had I never heard about this? the rest of the world is like “we guess women can be nurses and ambulance drivers, we are so progressive!!!” meanwhile russia: GETS TIRED OF WOMEN DISGUISING THEMSELVES AS MEN AND SNEAKING INTO THE ARMY. FORMS WOMEN-ONLY UNITS AND CALLS THEM ‘BATTALIONS OF DEATH’*
My Great-Aunt Esther served! Her uniform is on display in the NY State Museum currently, but the exhibit caption omits that it served double-duty– when she got home, her sweetheart met her off the troop transport, and married her right away, so it was her wedding dress too.
The only photo I can find is of a family portrait of us next to it, but, you get the idea.
(It’s the blue one. The woman on the right is my mother, her uh actually I don’t know if she was my mother’s aunt or great-aunt, I’m mortified to admit. Sorry, that’s the best photo I have; the woman on the left is my older sister and the kids are my mom’s various grandkids. [The blurry one is Farmbaby, the other three are my older sister’s.])
She was an Army nurse, and did serve at the front. I remember her, but unfortunately I was too little to think to ask her much about it. We had family reunions where we kept up the various family tombstones in the cemetery; after she passed, there was a flag by the stone, because she was a veteran, while her husband was not.
Oh– my god– I just Googled the exhibit and there’s! a whole! exhibit pamphlet!! With photos of her and her uniform and– oh my gosh!! I don’t know if my mother knows about this. It’s a PDF, here– Esther Denison Haswell, In Love And War.
Her husband was prohibited from enlisting because he worked for the railway, I never knew that. Oh how fascinating. Anyway– there’s some information, there, about American women who served! This is more informative than I thought I was going to be!
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