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Urban Elites Clothing

From head to toe, the details star in the "looks" of international catwalks, such as Paris, where the designers seem to have agreed when proposing plain garments in terms of color, in which the wealth lies in elements such as accessories or volumes. Thus, the interest in the prints of previous seasons has given way to painstaking creative work, which has given rise to earrings, scarves and footwear, for which the traditional label of "accessories" has become too small. Constructing styling with well-chosen basic garments and accessories is one of the fundamental maxims of "street style", a lesson that has been internalized by various designers on their walk on the Paris catwalk, and which has been reflected in collections full of scarves and jewelery. From young firms such as Jour / NĂ©, to the most established ones, such as Valentino or Yves Saint Laurent, all have developed their own manual for the use of elements, such as silk scarves, which no

Uncomfortable fact is historians

The year 1917 was highly consequential for the suffrage movement. Having lost the chance to defeat the reelection of President Woodrow Wilson, who had initially been lukewarm toward suffrage, activists set their sights on securing voting rights for women by the 1920 presidential election. One wing of activists began a daily picket of the White House, the first in American history. Another organized a lobbying campaign to win Congressional votes. Then, in April of that year, the United States entered World War I, and whatever political will that had been building for women’s enfranchisement evaporated. Still, suffragists were not deterred. One of the most powerful weapons they had was the four million women already empowered to vote by their state constitutions. These women could cast ballots in all elections, up to the federal level, including for congressional representatives and for president. All of these “suffrage states” were still west of the Mississippi, but in November,