‘The Great Gatsby’ Turns 100 Today. Its Fashion Influence Is Still Going Strong.
The traffic light turns green on a crowded jag of downtown Manhattan. Polished women shake their choppy, chopped hair in the wind, scanning news of soaring stocks, then crashing stocks, then a wild party their friends tried to crash. Stores show drop-waist dresses and long beaded cardigans in one window, piles of crisp white shirts…