Sunday, March 27, 2011
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Bowery Gals
- Bowery Gals
- NY, NY, United States
- "[Bowery gals]...the emergence of an ebullient young workingwomen’s culture in 1840s New York. This young womanly culture was expressed most vibrantly in the figure of the Bowery Gal,... (otherwise known as the Bowery g’hal). This Gal was easily distinguished by her in-your-face sartorial dash and brash ways, and by her tendency to hang out in the cheap theatres, dance halls and on the pavements of the Bowery after-hours. ..."