Style Icon: Amelia Earhart

Some of you may or may not know this, but "Queen of the Air" and daredevil aviator Amelia Earhart was a fashion icon in her day: she licensed her name to a line of clothing, was photographed regularly by the fashion press and influenced peeps like Katharine Hepburn with her no-nonsense, streamlined, yet powerfully elegant style. Look at how she wore pants, for Christ's sake! I love her because to say her name is to evoke adventure, risk-taking and a certain exhilarated mode of living: things that fashion sometimes promises us we'll find when we wear certain clothes, but often never do. Earhart's clothes didn't have to help her be strong and capable; she was already those things, and she dressed to allow those qualities to express themselves fully. In an age when we clad ourselves in clothes to make us seem cooler, richer, more beautiful or just more anything, such a pragmatic (but no less expressive) approach seems almost revolutionary.

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