Reposted by elin
From 2017: Marimekko was made for the working woman who could afford to ungirdle herself, one in a long line of “reform-dress” movements that started with the nineteenth-century feminist bloomer.
newyorker.com
Jane Jacobs, Georgia O’Keeffe, and the Power of the Marimekko Dress
Who could be more desirous of forgetting what they had on than women such as Jacobs and O’Keeffe, who had so much to do?