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Francine Gottfried (born 1947) was an unknown clerical worker who suddenly became an international celebrity when large groups of men began to mob her on her way to work for two weeks in September 1968. Newspapers dubbed her "Wall Street's Sweater Girl" as her curvaceous figure seemed to be the sole reason that crowds formed spontaneously around her whenever she appeared in the financial district. Gottfried first started working in the financial district on May 27, 1968. By late August, a small band of girl watchers had noticed her, and that she always followed the same route. They timed her daily arrival and started spreading the word to their colleagues and co-workers. For three weeks, the band of gawkers grew exponentially larger until on September 18 there were 2,000 people waiting for her. By this point the crowd itself had become the phenomenon drawing the crowd, and the following day, September 19, over 5,000 financial district employees downed tools, left work and poured into the streets at 1:15 pm to watch the 5-foot 3-inch brunette exit the BMT station clad in a tight yellow sweater and miniskirt and walk to her job at the Chemical Bank New York Trust Company's downtown data processing center.〔Sloane, Leonard. "Boom and Bust on Wall Street", ''New York Magazine'', October 14, 1968, p. 33.〕 Police closed the streets and escorted her through the mob, which damaged three cars as men climbed on their roofs to gain a better view. Stockbrokers and bankers leaned out of windows overlooking Wall Street to watch as trading came to a virtual halt. "Ticker tapes went untended and dignified brokers ran amok," wrote ''New York'' magazine.〔''New York Magazine'', Oct. 14, 1968, p. 3.〕 Photographers from all the daily papers and ''Life'', ''Time'', and ''New York'' snapped her picture. "A Bust Panics Wall Street As The Tape Reads 43" read a headline in the ''Daily News''. The following day, Friday, September 20, the corner of Wall and Broad was jammed with 10,000 spectators and press who waited for Gottfried in vain.〔"10,000 Wait in Vain for Reappearance of Wall Street's Sweater Girl," ''New York Times'', Sept. 21, 1968〕 Her boss had called and asked her to stay home to put a stop to the disturbances. A nice Jewish girl who lived at home with her parents in Williamsburg, she wasn't seeking notoriety and started taking a different route to work.〔("Fleeting Infamy, Many Called, Few Frozen In Spotlight," ) by Michael O. Allen, Richard T. Pienciak, ''Daily News'', May 4, 1997. Retrieved Nov. 28, 2009.〕 "I think they're all crazy," she was quoted as saying. "What are they doing this for? I'm just an ordinary girl."〔(MacCannell, Dean, ''Empty Meeting Grounds: The Tourist Papers'', p. 246. (Routledge, 1992) ) At Google Books. Retrieved 14 June 2013.〕 After that, the Francine mania on Wall Street quickly subsided, and she eventually left her $92.50 a week job as an IBM 1260 keypunch operator to become a go-go dancer. Although Gottfried made it clear to interviewers that she was willing to entertain movie and modeling offers, her 15 minutes of fame were soon over and she quickly faded into obscurity. Brief accounts of the crowd-gathering phenomenon she triggered subsequently appeared in a number of sociological and pop historical books, some treating it as a survival of the so-called "bosom mania" of the 1950s.〔''Iconicity: essays on the nature of culture: festschrift for Thomas A. Sebeok on his 65th birthday'' (Stauffenburg Verlag, 1986), p. 430–431.〕 A folk song about her, slyly contrasting the crowd that went to see her with the one welcoming presidential candidate Richard Nixon nearby, was published in ''Broadside'' magazine. Artist and prankster Joey Skaggs offered a facetious show of support by hanging a 50-foot black bra opposite the stock exchange. She dined with the Apollo 10 astronauts, and ''Esquire'' awarded her a "Dubious Achievement" award, depicting her with other "dubious achievers" on the cover of the January 1970 issue. She was referenced as a cultural icon of the era in Thomas Hauser's novel ''Finding the Princess''. The events of September 1968 made an impression on New York City feminists, and in March 1970, feminists retaliated in a raid on Wall Street which they dubbed the "Ogle-In", in which a large group of feminists, including Karla Jay, Alix Kates Shulman, and a number of women who had participated in the sit-in at ''Ladies Home Journal'' a few weeks before, sexually harassed male Wall Streeters on their way to work.〔Jay, Karla. ''Tales of the Lavender Menace,'' (Basic Books, 1999), pp. 132–133.〕 Susan Brownmiller reminisced in her memoir ''In Our Time'': ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Francine Gottfried」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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