Elizabeth Friedman Quotes

Vanessa Friedman, the fashion director and chief fashion critic for the New York Times, proposed a different theory to explain Carolyn's fashion resurgence, explaining in an October 2023 column that Carolyn 'offered an example of a different way to be in the world, one that valorized what wasn't shown. And because she never gave a single interview after her marriage, what she wore became a stand-in for who she was.

Women were told to “act like women” and “look like women,” in part to fight the “paranoia that American women had become overly masculine during the war,” writes historian Elizabeth Matelski in her book Reducing Bodies: Mass Culture and the Female Figure in Postwar America. They married earlier than their mothers had a generation ago, and they had more children in rapid succession.