And hair styles also helped blur class and racial lines. The black journalist Ida B Wells sported the same Gibson Girl updo as her white peers. Shopgirls and socialites donned identical styles.

Gibson was known for his fluffy-maned girls and Evelyn would come to be known for her pin-up portraits. In drawing the model this way, Gibson captured a bit of the zeitgeist.

The "Edwardian/Gibson Girl" hairstyle the statement refers to was made popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by artist Charles Dana Gibson's series of "Gibson Girls" paintings.

Charles Dana Gibson and "The Gibson Girl" With her hourglass figure, her expertly upswept hair, and her decidedly aristocratic air, she was everything American women in 1900 aspired to be.

"The image is meant to be an update of the romantic Edwardian/ Gibson Girl hair which suits the period feel of the Brock Collection, and also the big hair of the '60s and the early '70s, that ...

“The image is meant to be an update of the romantic Edwardian/Gibson Girl hair which suits the period feel of the Brock Collection, and also the big hair of the ’60s and the early ’70s, that ...

The Gibson Girl dropped into a low chair, and crossed one knee over the other ; then she proceeded to inspect the room, whistling meanwhile a snatch from the last comic opera.