“Everything about their appearance was a synonym for their political background”, says Daigeler.It’s no coincidence that the clothes act as a proxy for how the women feel about their own bodies. Friedan was as famous as Steinem, but in competition with her youth, a source of tension precipitated by one blue floral dress – found by Daigeler on Etsy – which Friedan wears on a date. Schlafly might be the anti-hero – and indeed her portrayal is troublingly sympathetic at times – but in A women’s rights march in 1977 in Houston.
The lesbians look like regular women because – shock horror – they actually are.
“Sunglasses are about projecting coolness,” he said. Moments before walking on to the set, she switches the small cross for a large wooden one. We don’t know what she wore at home – her daughter, Cori, recently told Steinem’s wardrobe makes the contrast with Schlafly all the clearer. No woman, it seems, was immune to that societal pressure.The show has been criticised for undermining the ERA’s struggle as simply a cat fight between women.
Schlafly, who is first introduced wearing a bikini, privately works out while diet adverts play loudly in the background. In 1970, only By contrast, the contradictions of Schlafly’s position – she was the “sweetheart of the silent majority”, but she also had a career and domestic servants who did the bulk of the homemaking work – are there in the contrast between her clothes and her accessories. Gloria Steinem's Aviator Sunglasses Art Zelin/Getty Images, Courtesy (3) Throughout the 1970s, feminist leader Gloria Steinem was rarely seen without her … To lift those goggles for even an instant was to risk death. But because of its size, it also says I am the best Catholic,” says Bina Daigeler, the show’s costume designer.No one knows if the real Schlafly switched crucifixes, but we do know she wore something similar during the debate. Like Schroeder, Macready depended on goggles that had been designed to seal his eyes from the cold and protect his sight. Phyllis Schlafly wanted to make America bake again. From left, Susan B Anthony II, Bella Abzug, Peggy Kokernot, wearing yellow shorts, and Betty Friedan wearing red coat.A women’s rights march in 1977 in Houston. For the conservatives, it’s all pie-crust collars and restrictive pussy-bow ties; for the libbers, it’s open cheesecloth shirts and drawstring necklines. The audience needs to identify with the struggle, to see how each woman is trying to make their own way and fight”. “She really stood out from the men in their suits.” The use of silk instead of the heavy 1970s fabric Chisholm would have worn, was simply “to elevate and modernise how she looked”, Daigeler says.“We don’t always know what women like Shirley wore in the privacy of a hotel room, but we do know that although she is let down by the libbers, she was never going to end up in sweatpants.” From the use of prints, to her cream suits, Chisholm used her clothing as both a shield and a statement about civil rights. It seemed there was an aviator for everyone. “Gloria looked aspirational, and I wanted the younger generation to see that. But the early goggles were not dark enough, and “the bright sunlight in the upper atmosphere hurt his eyes,” said his daughter, Sally Macready Wallace.And so Macready began working with Bausch & Lomb to design goggles especially suited to protect against the dazzle in the stratosphere. Daigeler copied and printed the exact patterns on to replica pieces. Sold as sporting equipment, they cost several dollars at a time when sunglasses could be had for 25 cents. But Viemeister said that he’s a fan of black lenses like those worn by the early test pilots, who needed protection against the glare of the stratosphere. Early in the 20th century, as test pilots began flying higher than Mount Everest, they had to defend themselves against temperatures as low as minus-80 degrees Fahrenheit. sex symbol, Steinem’s look was scrutinised like no other woman in politics. Steinem’s wardrobe makes the contrast with Schlafly all the clearer. Abzug is never without a hat – her mother tells her to always wear one so she isn’t mistaken for a secretary.She was also, in her own words, “born yelling”, and her polka-dotted dresses made her briefly “the most recognisable woman in US politics” according to a 2019 biography. “Gloria looked aspirational, and I wanted the younger generation to see that. On the programme that conjured up that divide between pussybow and jeansSchlafly is wearing a knitted two-piece in bright tangerine, as she often did, and a small silver crucifix. In the early days of Elsewhere, minor optics became symbols of larger moments: gay civil rights activist and lawyer Flo Kennedy wears her famous cowboy hat, pink sunglasses and CND logo earrings. From left, Susan B Anthony II, Bella Abzug, Peggy Kokernot, wearing yellow shorts, and Betty Friedan wearing red coat.Cate Blanchett, wearing an Equal Rights Amendment pin, and the real Phyllis Schlafly pictured in 1975.Uzo Aduba as Shirley Chisholm, pictured in Florida in 1972.Tracey Ullman as Betty Friedan, pictured in New York in 1971. The frames added a flourish to some of the most iconic faces of the 20th century — from Elvis to Gloria Steinem to the Unabomber.In the 1980s, Tucker Viemeister helped design aviators with sepia lenses under the brand name Serengeti; glasses like these ushered in the light-hued shades still in style today. Not yet called aviators, the glasses nonetheless captured the essence of aviator goggles, with their teardrop shape and frames as delicate as a biplane’s struts. If Schlafly weaponised her crucifix in public, she did the same for her pearls, neckties and Reagan’s MAGA pins, all based on what she wore in real life.The widespread availability of archive photography on the internet is both an aid and a challenge to costume designers looking to re-create the wardrobes of real people. There are references to Schlafly, Friedan and Steinem dying their hair.