she didn t want to the belate game of hollywood, put on your prettyist dress. katharine hepburn made pants happen. it was seen as being a very tomboyish look, often with mannish jackets. so it was a glar morization of that androgenous look for women. smooel she did it beautifully and i think in a very feminine way and she didn t look as if she was trying to be a man and fool all of us. she was catherine hepburn and she is saying here i am and i m me and i love that aboutler. there was a huge pushback against hepburn wearing pants. gossip columnists would spend it the entire column writing about how she wasn t living up to the standards of what will people expected a woman to do in public and how they expected her to be and act. it certainly gave women who had never worn pants and thought oh, this is something i simply can t do in my real life, it gave them a lot of confidence about this is okay, i can do it, katharine hepburn does. she successfully stood up to what hollywoo