Kerry Segrave
Auteur van Drive-in Theaters: A History from Their Inception in 1933
Over de Auteur
Cultural historian Kerry Segrave is the author of dozens of books on such diverse topics as drive-in theaters, ticket-scalping, lie detectors, jukeboxes, smoking and shoplifting. He lives in British Columbia.
Werken van Kerry Segrave
Lynchings of Women in the United States: The Recorded Cases, 1851-1946 (Twenty-First Century Works) (2010) 6 exemplaren
America Brushes Up: The Use and Marketing of Toothpaste and Toothbrushes in the Twentieth Century (2010) 5 exemplaren
Vision Aids in America: A Social History of Eyewear and Sight Correction Since 1900 (2011) 4 exemplaren
Women and Capital Punishment in America 1840-1899: Death Sentences and Executions in the United States and Canada (2008) 4 exemplaren
The Continental Actress: European Film Stars of the Postwar Era : Biographies, Criticism, Filmographies, Bibliographies (1990) 3 exemplaren
The Sexual Harassment of Women in the Workplace, 1600 to 1993 (Twenty-First Century Works) (1994) 3 exemplaren
American Television Abroad: Hollywood's Attempt to Dominate World Television (Twenty-First Century Works) (1998) 3 exemplaren
American films abroad : Hollywood's domination of the world's movie screens from the 1890s to the present (1997) 3 exemplaren
Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1944-08-07
- Geslacht
- female
- Woonplaatsen
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Besprekingen
Statistieken
- Werken
- 47
- Leden
- 234
- Populariteit
- #96,591
- Waardering
- 2.5
- Besprekingen
- 1
- ISBNs
- 93
It wasn't long before men began complaining that, if they went to the theater or opera and sat behind a woman wearing one of these huge hats, they had no chance of being able to see the stage. (I can't say as I blame them; I'd have a bit of a hissy fit myself.) When hatpins that were well over a foot long came into use, some of them extended over six inches past the crown of the hat on either side. Get on a crowded streetcar or other conveyance and be next to a woman wearing this headgear and fasteners, and you could easily get jostled and have your eye put out. A lot of men began insisting that something must be done.
This small book (the last quarter of which is footnotes and bibliography) is divided into chapters headed Big Hats, Hatpin Fashion, The Hatpin as an Offensive Weapon, As a Defensive Weapon, Group Use, Accidental Use, The Hatpin Abroad, and The Agitation, Hysteria, Crusades, and Legislation Against the Hatpin. As you can see, it's "All Hatpins All the Time" even though the entire controversy ended up being a storm in a teacup.
I did find some of the information interesting, but when all was said and done, it all added up to overkill. Each chapter was basically an exhaustive list of newspaper articles that fit the chapter heading. After a while, it became repetitive and boring, and my eyes began to cross. However, I certainly know a lot about hatpins now!… (meer)