Fashion Women In Business - Coco Chanel Riassunto, Sintesi del corso di Lingua Inglese

Scarica Fashion Women In Business - Coco Chanel Riassunto e più Sintesi del corso in PDF di Lingua Inglese solo su Docsity! BUSINESS ENGLISH COCO CHANEL At the beginning of the twentieth century the idea of women in business seemed crazy. Men held all the positions of power and made all the decisions about money. A woman’s place was within the walls of home; she could work in a factory but she had no chance of working as a businesswoman, a banker or a lawyer. Women’s fashion supported this idea. Fashionable women wore long dresses that made it difficult for them to do almost anything and they also wore large hats to protect themselves from the sun (as their skin was expected to be as white as possible) so it was hard for them to move around. ManY women didn’t like the clothes they had to wear, one of these people was Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel. She went into business in 1910 and she planned to change the clothes that women wore. She had no experience of business when she opened her first shop in Paris in 1910, since she came from an ordinary family and she had only worked as a dressmaker. Although she didn’t have any money, she knew fashionable and successful people. Her customers loved the simple but beautiful hats; soon they were asking Coco for clothes that were designed in the same simple way and so she made dresses and skirts that were much shorter and reached just below the knee. She also persuaded her customers to wear loose jackets and blouses that allowed them to breathe more easily.