Charles Dana Gibson

11 Responses to Charles Dana Gibson

1. JFH says:

   September 27, 2006 at 12:06 pm

   Boy, this guy Gibson sure can draw girls well, I mean he really captures their beauty and softness. There should be, like, a name for these type illustrations.

   (Yeah, I know, really weak, but give me a break, it’s Hump day)
2. red says:

   September 27, 2006 at 12:08 pm

   :) I agree … I just love the Gibson Girl. She’s beautiful and kinda haughty – and – clearly a force to be reckoned with. Also: look at the hair. Majorly cool hair.
3. ricki says:

   September 27, 2006 at 1:00 pm

   And another thing: there was no “heroin chic” in Charles Dana Gibson’s day. There may have been opium use, but it wasn’t exactly “chic.” There was no Kate Moss, no models with a BMI of negative three.

   And there may have been corsets, but…look at the arms on those girls. They’re not mincing around and living on cigarettes and Diet Coke.
4. Ceci says:

   September 27, 2006 at 1:01 pm

   I like the girl at the left, I really identify with her and her dark hair, neatly tucked, but most of all I love her strong eyebrows! :)
5. red says:

   September 27, 2006 at 1:07 pm

   It almost looks like the gorgeous one on the left is looking DOWN, just a quick glance down into his lap, if ya know what I’m sayin’.
6. red says:

   September 27, 2006 at 1:29 pm

   My hair is so fine and thin I would need to do some MAJOR propping up if I wanted to have hair like that. I was an extra in a film where I needed to have a pompadour – and somehow those magicians known as “the hair people” made it look like I had MOUNDS of hair. When really – it was totally hollow – … a complete illusion.
7. ricki says:

   September 27, 2006 at 3:56 pm

   In with some of the stuff my mom inherited from her grandma, she has a “hair receptacle.”

   Apparently women in the Gibson Girl era (and earlier) used to save the hair out of their combs and use it to make “rats” to support those big pompadours.

   I have pretty thick coarse hair (and lots of it – it’s almost to the middle of my back) and I can’t get it to go into and stay in an updo like that. I think you need some kind of underpinnings for that kind of hairdo.
8. red says:

   September 27, 2006 at 4:01 pm

   Wow – okay. So it’s kind of like an INNER hair extension.
9. Ceci says:

   September 27, 2006 at 4:08 pm

   Well, I actually don’t have such a big mass of hair either, but in the humidity of Buenos Aires my relatively fine hair expands magically, gets a soft wave and looks similar to that of the Gibson girl (or that’s what I’d like to think, at least, hahaha).

   I must be the only woman in the world who likes what humidity does to her hair.
10. red says:

    September 27, 2006 at 4:13 pm

    Ceci – hahahaha. My hair becomes stringy and SOAKED in the humidity. If I spend any time at all outside, it looks as though I have come out of a swimming pool. It is soooooooooo annoying. All I can do is just put it back in a ponytail and accept the fact that I am ugly. Nothing more I can do.
11. Ceci says:

    September 27, 2006 at 4:25 pm

    hahahaha!! I feel the same way… but in DRY weather. I get dog hair! Uglyyyyyyyy.

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