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2. Sack-back gown - Wikipedia

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   The sack-back gown or robe à la française was a women's fashion of 18th century Europe. [1] At the beginning of the century, the sack-back gown was a very informal style of dress. At its most informal, it was unfitted both front and back and called a sacque, contouche, or robe battante. By the 1770s the sack-back gown was second only to court ...

3. 1750–1775 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   Women's clothing styles emphasized a narrow, inverted conical torso, achieved with boned stays, above full skirts. Hoop skirts continued to be worn, reaching their largest size in the 1750s, and were sometimes replaced by side-hoops, also called 'false hips', or panniers . [ 1 ]

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. Farthingale - Wikipedia

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   At a dinner for French diplomats in May 1559, the farthingales of Elizabeth I and her ladies took up so much space that some women of her privy chamber had to sit on the rush-covered floor. [ 11 ] A chest of costume for drama at King's College, Cambridge , in 1554 contained some items fashioned from disused vestments, including two pieces of ...

6. 6 Things French Women Over 40 Are Wearing in Paris ... - AOL

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   3. Animal Print. Laëtitia Casta (46) At this point, most fashionistas would argue that animal print has become a neutral by now. Thanks to trends like the Mob Wife aesthetic and indie sleaze, we ...

7. 1700–1750 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   Children older than toddlers continued to wear clothing which was in many respects simply a smaller version of adult clothing. Although it is often said that children wore miniature versions of adult clothing, this is something of a myth. Girls wore back-fastening gowns, trimmed much more simply than women's.