Meet the American Gibson Girl - in Rare 1904 Footage Restored to Life

Haunting footage of American women at work in a Pittsburgh factory 1904. Epitomizing the ’Gibson Girl’ aesthetic and vintage clothing style. Shirtwaist blouses, full-length skirts and pompadour hair. Filmed at Westinghouse Electric Colorized and upscaled to 4k 60fps with added sound. Coined after the popular illustrations of Charles Dana Gibson, the “Gibson Girl“ was the personification of an idealized American woman at the turn of the 20th century. A forerunner of the 1920s flapper, the Gibson girl was the “new woman“, a blend of traditional and progressive, both independent yet feminine. Charles Gibson’s muse was an actress called Evelyn Nesbit. The “New Woman“ was a late 19th and early 20th century concept representing women who challenged traditional roles by advocating for greater independence, education, and equal rights AI restoration, upscaling to 4K 60 fps and colorization by Glamourdaze, using deep learning machine. Spec
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