@historyundressed: A woman ahead of her time! 👏🏻👏🏻💖 “I put on pants 50 years ago and declared a sort of middle road,” Katharine Hepburn told Barbara Walters in a 1981 interview. -In the early 1930’s, women’s fashion had not yet been liberated by the practicalities of World War II, when women en masse took positions in businesses and industries while the men were at war. Women were, arrested if they wore pants in public, detained for “masquerading as men.” It was the decade that saw the publication of Freud’s theories of femininity and female masculinity. Clothing was still perceived as a manifestation of one’s gender, and “mannish” trousers were feared to reflect a perversity within women. -Enter Katharine Hepburn. In 1933, Movie Classic magazine ran the feature “Will It Be Trousers For Women?,” and Hepburn was listed along with Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Mozelle Britton, and Fay Wray as “among the stars who have lined up on the side of trousers for women.” -While working at RKO, Hepburn wore a pair of blue jeans to the studio, but they were confiscated from her dressing room while she was on set filming. Far from persuading Hepburn to wear a skirt, she instead returned to set in her underwear and refused to cover her bottom half until her jeans were returned. // #katharinehepburn #feminism #girlboss #oldhollywood #classicmovies #historyundressed

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