Lynn Mally
Biographic Data
| ID | 1049067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynn Mally |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynn |
| FAMILY NAME | Mally |
| SIGNATURE | MALLY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5681-2273 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Fitting In: The History of Half Size Clothing in America
This article examines the rise and fall of “half sizes” in American women’s fashion from the 1920s to the 1980s. Created as an addendum to standardized sizing, half sizes attempted to solve fit issues among shorter and wider bodies. Despite their practical advantages, half sizes were burdened with stigmatizing associations of age, fatness, and deviation from the fashionable norm. Marketing often emphasized “concealment” and “flattery,” reinforcin…
The nuances of sizing for stouts in the early twentieth century
Mass manufactured garments for women have been around since the beginning of the twentieth century. With mass production, a ‘standardization’ of sizing was needed. Standardization of clothing was difficult as bodies were (and still today) not statistically proportionate and clothing was not one size fits all. To tackle the ‘difficult’ to fit – fat women, known as stout – manufacturers and retailers devised myriad sized numbering systems to accomm…
The Origins of the New Half Sizes in the 1920s
In the mid-1920s, American clothing manufacturers introduced a new size range they called the “new half sizes.” It was in response to emerging biometric data showing that women were not as tall as the standard sizes designers had assumed. In addition, the new sizes added extra room at the waist and hip, intended to accommodate those who had abandoned corsets. Initially, manufacturers claimed that this new size range would fit the majority of Amer…
The world of Mrs Exeter: The older woman of fashion in mid-twentieth-century America
In the summer of 1948, the American edition of Vogue magazine invented a fictional character named Mrs Exeter. Her purpose was to provide fashion advice to women aged 50 and beyond. Articles focusing on Mrs Exeter were a repeating feature in the magazine until 1962, giving unusual attention to the clothing needs of older women. The figure of Mrs Exeter had considerable influence, spreading to British Vogue , newspaper advertisements and the home …
Exporting Soviet Culture: The Case of Agitprop Theater
In this article Lynn Mally examines the efforts of a Comintern affiliate called MORT (Mezhdunarodnoe ob"edinenie revoliutsionnykh teatrov) to export models of Soviet theatrical performance outside the Soviet Union. Beginning with the first Five-Year Plan, MORT was initially very successful in promoting Soviet agitprop techniques abroad. But once agitprop methods fell into disgrace in the Soviet Union, MORT abruptly changed its tactics. It suddenl…
Revolutionary Acts: Amateur Theater and the Soviet State 1917-1938
Theatre in the Solovki Prison Camp
Shock Workers On the Cultural Front: Agitprop Brigades in the First Five-Year Plan
Performing the New Woman: The Komsomolka as Actress and Image in Soviet Youth Theater
Journal Article Performing the New Woman: The Komsomolka as Actress and Image in Soviet Youth Theater Get access Lynn Mally Lynn Mally Department of History, University of California, Irvine, CA 92717-3275 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 30, Issue 1, Fall 1996, Pages 79–95, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/30.1.79 Published: 01 October 1996
Pierrot in Petrograd: The Commedia dell’Arte/Balagan in Twentieth-Century Russian Theatre and Drama, by J. Douglas Clayton
Utopias Lost and Found: In Search of Soviet Culture
Research Article| May 01 1994 Utopias Lost and Found: In Search of Soviet Culture Lynn Mally Lynn Mally Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (59): 181–189. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1994-59-181 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Lynn Mally; Utopias Lost and Found: In Search of Soviet Culture. Radical History Review 1 May …
Cinema and Soviet Society, 1917-1953.
n this history of Soviet cinema Peter Kenez describes the pre-revolutionary heritage, the changes brought about by the Revolution, the great flourishing of the golden years of the late 1920s, the constraints imposed on artists in the name of Socialist realism, the relative liberalization during the years of the Second World War, and the extraordinary repression during the gloomy last years of Stalin. The author's primary concern is the political …
Earth (Zemlia)
Russia in the Era of NEP: Explorations in Soviet Society and Culture
Preface I. Introduction: NEP Russia as a Transitional Society William G. Rosenberg II. The Problem of Class Identity in NEP Society Sheila Fitzpatrick III. Class and Consciousness in a Socialist Society: Workers in the Printing Trades during NEP Diane P. Koenker IV. Labor Conflict in Moscow, 1921-1925 John B. Hatch V. WorkersO Artels and Soviet Production Relations Hiroaki Kuromiya VI. Private Trade and Traders during NEP R.E. Johnson VII. Family…
Autonomous Theater and the Origins of Socialist Realism: The 1932 Olympiad of Autonomous Art
In August 1932 over one hundred theatrical, choral and orchestral circles from throughout the Soviet Union met in Moscow to display their work to a distinguished panel of judges and an enthusiastic audience. This was the first national competition of local amateur and semiprofessional cultural groups, which had been sent by unions, factories, houses of culture, and clubs. Intended to emphasize the cultural achievements of the Soviet proletariat a…
The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Youth Theater TRAM
Young people need their own theater, akin to their own spirit," wrote the actor Nikolai Kriuchkov in a memoir of his life in the theater in the 1920s and 1930s. While he acknowledged that the Soviet Union had developed a network of professional Komsomol theaters aimed at youth, Kriuchkov charged that in general these theaters simply duplicated the repertoire of conventional stages. But TRAM, an acronym for the Theater of Working-Class Youth (Teat…
Culture of the Future: The Proletkult Movement in Revolutionary Russia
Bolshevik Culture: Experiment and Order in the Russian Revolution
Bolshevik Visions: First Phase of the Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia
The Politics of Soviet Culture: Anatolii Lunacharskii
A. Bogdanov und der russische Proletkult. Theorie und Praxis einer sozialistischen Kulturrevolution
Bolshevik Culture: Experiment and Order in the Russian Revolution
Culture of the Future: The Proletkult Movement in Revolutionary Russia
Bolshevik Visions: First Phase of the Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia
The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Youth Theater TRAM
Young people need their own theater, akin to their own spirit," wrote the actor Nikolai Kriuchkov in a memoir of his life in the theater in the 1920s and 1930s. While he acknowledged that the Soviet Union had developed a network of professional Komsomol theaters aimed at youth, Kriuchkov charged that in general these theaters simply duplicated the repertoire of conventional stages. But TRAM, an acronym for the Theater of Working-Class Youth (Teat…
Exporting Soviet Culture: The Case of Agitprop Theater
In this article Lynn Mally examines the efforts of a Comintern affiliate called MORT (Mezhdunarodnoe ob"edinenie revoliutsionnykh teatrov) to export models of Soviet theatrical performance outside the Soviet Union. Beginning with the first Five-Year Plan, MORT was initially very successful in promoting Soviet agitprop techniques abroad. But once agitprop methods fell into disgrace in the Soviet Union, MORT abruptly changed its tactics. It suddenl…
Autonomous Theater and the Origins of Socialist Realism: The 1932 Olympiad of Autonomous Art
In August 1932 over one hundred theatrical, choral and orchestral circles from throughout the Soviet Union met in Moscow to display their work to a distinguished panel of judges and an enthusiastic audience. This was the first national competition of local amateur and semiprofessional cultural groups, which had been sent by unions, factories, houses of culture, and clubs. Intended to emphasize the cultural achievements of the Soviet proletariat a…
A. Bogdanov und der russische Proletkult. Theorie und Praxis einer sozialistischen Kulturrevolution
Performing the New Woman: The Komsomolka as Actress and Image in Soviet Youth Theater
Journal Article Performing the New Woman: The Komsomolka as Actress and Image in Soviet Youth Theater Get access Lynn Mally Lynn Mally Department of History, University of California, Irvine, CA 92717-3275 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 30, Issue 1, Fall 1996, Pages 79–95, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/30.1.79 Published: 01 October 1996
A. Bogdanov und der russische Proletkult. Theorie und Praxis einer sozialistischen Kulturrevolution
Bolshevik Visions: First Phase of the Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia
The Politics of Soviet Culture: Anatolii Lunacharskii
Bolshevik Culture: Experiment and Order in the Russian Revolution
Culture of the Future: The Proletkult Movement in Revolutionary Russia
The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Youth Theater TRAM
Young people need their own theater, akin to their own spirit," wrote the actor Nikolai Kriuchkov in a memoir of his life in the theater in the 1920s and 1930s. While he acknowledged that the Soviet Union had developed a network of professional Komsomol theaters aimed at youth, Kriuchkov charged that in general these theaters simply duplicated the repertoire of conventional stages. But TRAM, an acronym for the Theater of Working-Class Youth (Teat…
Cinema and Soviet Society, 1917-1953.
n this history of Soviet cinema Peter Kenez describes the pre-revolutionary heritage, the changes brought about by the Revolution, the great flourishing of the golden years of the late 1920s, the constraints imposed on artists in the name of Socialist realism, the relative liberalization during the years of the Second World War, and the extraordinary repression during the gloomy last years of Stalin. The author's primary concern is the political …
Earth (Zemlia)
Russia in the Era of NEP: Explorations in Soviet Society and Culture
Preface I. Introduction: NEP Russia as a Transitional Society William G. Rosenberg II. The Problem of Class Identity in NEP Society Sheila Fitzpatrick III. Class and Consciousness in a Socialist Society: Workers in the Printing Trades during NEP Diane P. Koenker IV. Labor Conflict in Moscow, 1921-1925 John B. Hatch V. WorkersO Artels and Soviet Production Relations Hiroaki Kuromiya VI. Private Trade and Traders during NEP R.E. Johnson VII. Family…
Autonomous Theater and the Origins of Socialist Realism: The 1932 Olympiad of Autonomous Art
In August 1932 over one hundred theatrical, choral and orchestral circles from throughout the Soviet Union met in Moscow to display their work to a distinguished panel of judges and an enthusiastic audience. This was the first national competition of local amateur and semiprofessional cultural groups, which had been sent by unions, factories, houses of culture, and clubs. Intended to emphasize the cultural achievements of the Soviet proletariat a…
Utopias Lost and Found: In Search of Soviet Culture
Research Article| May 01 1994 Utopias Lost and Found: In Search of Soviet Culture Lynn Mally Lynn Mally Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (59): 181–189. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1994-59-181 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Lynn Mally; Utopias Lost and Found: In Search of Soviet Culture. Radical History Review 1 May …
Pierrot in Petrograd: The Commedia dell’Arte/Balagan in Twentieth-Century Russian Theatre and Drama, by J. Douglas Clayton
Shock Workers On the Cultural Front: Agitprop Brigades in the First Five-Year Plan
Performing the New Woman: The Komsomolka as Actress and Image in Soviet Youth Theater
Journal Article Performing the New Woman: The Komsomolka as Actress and Image in Soviet Youth Theater Get access Lynn Mally Lynn Mally Department of History, University of California, Irvine, CA 92717-3275 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 30, Issue 1, Fall 1996, Pages 79–95, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/30.1.79 Published: 01 October 1996
Theatre in the Solovki Prison Camp
Revolutionary Acts: Amateur Theater and the Soviet State 1917-1938
Exporting Soviet Culture: The Case of Agitprop Theater
In this article Lynn Mally examines the efforts of a Comintern affiliate called MORT (Mezhdunarodnoe ob"edinenie revoliutsionnykh teatrov) to export models of Soviet theatrical performance outside the Soviet Union. Beginning with the first Five-Year Plan, MORT was initially very successful in promoting Soviet agitprop techniques abroad. But once agitprop methods fell into disgrace in the Soviet Union, MORT abruptly changed its tactics. It suddenl…
The world of Mrs Exeter: The older woman of fashion in mid-twentieth-century America
In the summer of 1948, the American edition of Vogue magazine invented a fictional character named Mrs Exeter. Her purpose was to provide fashion advice to women aged 50 and beyond. Articles focusing on Mrs Exeter were a repeating feature in the magazine until 1962, giving unusual attention to the clothing needs of older women. The figure of Mrs Exeter had considerable influence, spreading to British Vogue , newspaper advertisements and the home …
The Origins of the New Half Sizes in the 1920s
In the mid-1920s, American clothing manufacturers introduced a new size range they called the “new half sizes.” It was in response to emerging biometric data showing that women were not as tall as the standard sizes designers had assumed. In addition, the new sizes added extra room at the waist and hip, intended to accommodate those who had abandoned corsets. Initially, manufacturers claimed that this new size range would fit the majority of Amer…
The nuances of sizing for stouts in the early twentieth century
Mass manufactured garments for women have been around since the beginning of the twentieth century. With mass production, a ‘standardization’ of sizing was needed. Standardization of clothing was difficult as bodies were (and still today) not statistically proportionate and clothing was not one size fits all. To tackle the ‘difficult’ to fit – fat women, known as stout – manufacturers and retailers devised myriad sized numbering systems to accomm…
Fitting In: The History of Half Size Clothing in America
This article examines the rise and fall of “half sizes” in American women’s fashion from the 1920s to the 1980s. Created as an addendum to standardized sizing, half sizes attempted to solve fit issues among shorter and wider bodies. Despite their practical advantages, half sizes were burdened with stigmatizing associations of age, fatness, and deviation from the fashionable norm. Marketing often emphasized “concealment” and “flattery,” reinforcin…
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