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Camille Clifford was the quintessential Gibson Girl. When Charles Dana Gibson sponsored an international contest to find the real-life equivalent of his famous drawings, Camille's picture stood out above the rest. She won $2000.00, which she used to move to the US, and become a model and actress. Her style of high-piled hair, hourglass figure, and closely draped gowns defined, for a moment, American fashion.
