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2. Women's oversized fashion in the United States since the 1920s

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   Chiffon evening dress, 1921. The 1920s were marked by a post-war aesthetic. After World War I, the fashion world experienced a great switch: from tight corsets and hobble skirts—to shapeless, oversized, and sparsely decorated garments. [1] Women began to wear more comfortable fashions, including blousy skirts and trousers.

3. 1930–1945 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   The dress and coat combination created an overall effect of sensibility, modesty and girl next door lifestyle that contrasted the very popular, second-skin like style of the bias-cut evening gown. [29] Women wearing snoods in a factory Women's fashion in vacation in Lake Balaton in Hungary (1939).

4. Plus-size clothing - Wikipedia

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   Mary Duffy's Big Beauties was the first model agency to work with hundreds of new plus-size clothing lines and advertisers. For two decades, this plus-size category produced the largest per annum percentage increases in ready-to-wear retailing. Max Mara started Marina Rinaldi, one of the first high-end clothing lines, for plus-size women in ...

5. Tadashi Shoji - Wikipedia

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   Signature pieces include draped jersey gowns, pleated chiffon gowns, and shutter pleated cocktail dresses. His brand categories include evening wear, bridal, plus-size, kids, fragrance, shapewear, and intimate apparel. [12] Tadashi Shoji was a sponsor of Miss Universe Pageant from 2002 to 2007. He designed the opening dresses as well as the ...

6. Dressmaker - Wikipedia

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   Pierre Balmain and the actress Ruth Ford, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1947. A dressmaker, also known as a seamstress, is a person who makes clothing for women, such as dresses, blouses, and evening gowns.

7. Formal wear - Wikipedia

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   The most formal dress for women is a full-length ball or evening gown with evening gloves. Some white tie functions also request that the women wear long gloves past the elbow. Formal wear being the most formal dress code, it is followed by semi-formal wear, equivalently based around daytime black lounge suit, and evening black tie (dinner suit ...