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The Fascinating History of Women Wearing Suits

The history of women wearing suits is fascinating. And for many women today, they've opened the doors to a whole new kind of power dressing.

Women Wearing Suits

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Katherine Hepburn

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A little Herstory treat... One of the most feared of all London's street gangs in the late 1880's was a group of female toughs known as the Clockwork Oranges. They would later inspire Anthony Burgess' most notorious novel. Their main rivals were the all-female The Forty Elephants Gang. (I double-checked this - it's all real! ~Renata) Form Art, A Clockwork Orange, Wilde Westen, Clockwork Orange, Foto Vintage, Photo Vintage, Victorian Women, Interesting History, Photography Women

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Clockwork Orange

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Own a classic Observer photograph from the Women's Liberation Movement march, 1971

Women's Liberation Movement march, 1971 – in pictures

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Marie Curie, the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize (twice!) | 31 Remarkable Women Who Changed The World Madam Curie, Radium Girls, Margaret Sanger, Famous Scientist, Fearless Women, Margaret Thatcher, Amelia Earhart, Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman

Marie Curie, the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize (twice!)

In 1903 Curie was awarded a Noble Prize in physics for her work on radioactivity, and 1911 she received a second Nobel Prize in chemistry for her study of the elements polonium and radium.

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Margaret Thatcher

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12 Fascinating Women In History Who Deserve Their Own Biopics — Like, Yesterday Romaine Brooks, Natalie Clifford Barney, Joseph Pulitzer, Georges Clemenceau, Nellie Bly, Elizabeth Jane, Isadora Duncan, Insane Asylum, 1890s Fashion

12 Fascinating Women In History Who Deserve Their Own Biopics — Like, Yesterday

History is full of unrecognized women. That's not the most startling observation in the world; scribes throughout history have begrudged women any space in their important records of Kings And Emperors Doing Things, because ladies were just there to…

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Joseph Pulitzer

Georges Clemenceau

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Britain's first ever fashion shoot? Rare 19th century prints by pioneering female photographer go on sale (but be warned, they're rather 'sensual')

Lady Clementina Hawarden's pictures of her daughters (including Isabella, left) from the 1860s are set to fetch £150,000 at auction. She used the entire first floor of her London home as a studio.

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The Film Siren Whose Memoirs Showed The Tragedy Of A Fallen Star

“I've always burned my bridges before me.”

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Lily Brayton as Katherine in a production of The Shrew at the Adelphi Theatre, 1904. Old Portraits, Old Photography, Foto Vintage, Vintage Portraits, Vintage Pictures, Vintage Photographs, Vintage Beauty, Historical Fashion, Vintage Photography

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Paris, 1968.

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"Abandoned baby sleeping in desk drawer at Los Angeles Police station", 1971

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