During the early stages of the Industrial Revolution, the role of working-class women became a burden on what would be called British national identity. As can be seen from Deborah Valenze's book The First Industrial Woman, women who began working to support their families were seen as masculine because they dressed showing more skin. The new evolving identity of working-class women was criticized not only by men but also by women of higher economic status. This would eventually lead to the first wave of feminism in Britain from 1848 to 1920. This new wave in Britain was a reaction to the way working women had been repressed by British society in the early period of the Industrial Revolution. Therefore, the "gentle lady" of the Victorian age became unacceptable, and the role that domesticity was the right role for women to play became a criticism. The suffrage movement in many ways led women to embrace a new form of "masculinity" in clothing. The “masculinity” of the working-class woman became a thing to be praised. You can start to see this at the end of the first wave of feminism in the 1920s, when the flapper style became the new fashion. Society in Britain had become a matter of man versus woman, and women retaliated through fashion by adapting men's style clothing to cover their curvaceous figures. However, the impact of the Second World War on society brought with it a new ideology of Britain against the external enemy, which brought a revitalization of women's traditional roles illustrated by clothing. The following is an analysis of women's clothing after World War I and during World War II. To begin, it is important to connect the fashion of the 1920s to the events that were occurring in the late 19th century to f..... .middle of paper......Vintage Inspired Fashion Blog. Lady Jojo's boutique. http://ladyjojosboutique.wordpress.com/ Thomas, Pauline and Guy Thomas. Fashion-era.com. http://www.fashion-era.com/index.htmValenze, Deborah. The first industrial woman. Oxford University Press, 1995. Vogue Magazine Archives. British Vogue. http://www.vogue.co.uk/“Women's history, feminist history”. Women's history, feminist history. Np,nd Web 3 October 2013 http://www.history.ac.uk/makinghistory/resources/articles/womens_history.html Women's Social and Political Union; 1903-1919 ca.; organization of suffrage. Women's Library: Celebrating and Recording Women's Lives (London Metropolitan University 2007) http://calmarchive.londonmet.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Persons&dsqSearch=Code=='NA764 '&dsqCmd =Show.tclWWII a British focus. http://www.warlinks.com/memories/index.php