Event information
- Venue: Centro Municipal Integrado El Llano
- Audience: General
- Organizer: Universidad Popular
- Date and time: March 26, 2026 at 18:00
Description
The history of women’s clothing is a chronicle of the struggle for women’s liberation. From the end of the 19th century to the 20th century, every change in the way of dressing—from the abolition of the corset to the adoption of trousers and the miniskirt—pursues an autonomy in constant confrontation with patriarchal tradition.
Through the prism of the First and Second Wave of Feminism in Spain, it will be shown how women of each era broke the imposed dress codes: from the first suffragettes and fashion reformers, to the activists who used clothing as a weapon during the Transición.
Fashion will be addressed as a mode of personal and social emancipation, also exploring its relationship with artistic avant-gardes, cinema, and photography. We will draw from historical and graphic documents, newspaper archives, and collections, with special attention to the holdings of the Fototeca and the archives of the Muséu del Pueblu d’ Asturies in Xixón, to explain the past, present, and future of fashion as a tool for empowerment.
Additional details
- Speaker: Talk given by the historian Aurora Valdés Caso.
- Collaboration: Organized for the Foro de Mujeres de El Llano.
- Access: Activity open to the general public until full capacity is reached.
- Image: Portrait of “Fefa”. Ramón García Duarte, 1923. Collection Muséu del Pueblu d’ Asturies.