The Fashion Style of Rose O'Neill
Rose preferred to wear flowing robe-dresses which she called
an aura or a mantle. Ozark natives on the other hand called them “flyin’-squirrel
dresses.” Her garments might not have looked like anything other women were
wearing at the time, but they allowed Rose to have the movement needed to
create works of art. Other women of the time period were wearing corsets in
which they could barely breathe in let alone create art! In 1915 to The New York Press Rose said: “The first
step is to free women from the yoke of modern fashions and modern dress. How
can they hope to compete with men when they are boxed up tight in the clothes
that are worn today?”
