20세기 한국의 신여성과 모던 걸 패션의 비교 연구

Abstract

Korean fashion in the 1910s and 1930s, particularly women’s wear, was influenced by Western culture; all aspects of style, including fashion and consumption, were products of a culture that sought modernization. In the 1910s, the modern woman raise liberal viewpoints regarding womens rights as part the intellectual movement. By the 1920s, liberalism had expanded to the “educated” public. The “new woman” in the 1910s realized ethnic consciousness, class consciousness, and gender equality through social and economic activities, and led Korean fashion with apparel improvements by wearing western-style clothing comfortable for daily activities. The “modern girl” that appeared in the late 1920s was a group of women who were obsessed with consumption culture rather than having enlightened ideas; they appeared in certain occupational groups or high school girls. It was a generation that established a new class that can consume modern culture, such as free love, bobbed hair, Tre-mu-ri, high heels, jazz, and Western brand goods. This study aims to understand the fashion leaders of Korean society at that time by conducting analysis on the different consciousness of new women and modern girls in the 1910s and 1930s , which were established in modern civilization after the time of enlightenment.