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A dress (also known as a frock or a gown) is a one-piece outer garment that is worn on the torso and hangs down over the legs and is primarily worn by women or girls. [1] [2] Dresses often consist of a bodice attached to a skirt. Dress shapes and silhouettes, textiles, and colors vary.
Dress history is the study of history, which uses clothing and textiles to understand the past. Through analyzing modes of dress, different garment types, textiles, and accessories of a certain time in history, a dress historian may research and identify the social, cultural, economic, technological, and political contexts that influence such ...
Qatari women generally wear customary dresses that include "long black robes" and black head cover "hijab", locally called bo'shiya. [239] [240] However, the more traditional Sunni Muslim clothing for women are the black colored body covering known as the abayah together with the black scarf used for covering their heads known as the shayla. [241]
The 20th century women would have worn a Antebellum two piece silk dress with a hoop skirt underneath, gloves, an embellished bonnet and a parosol to the Ketnucky Derby. This dress is part of the ...
Why it's time to end the myth of "flattering" clothing, writes columnist Meghan De Maria. How fatphobia influences what fashions are considered 'flattering' — and why plus-size women are tired ...
A chādor (Persian, Urdu: چادر, lit. 'tent'), also variously spelled in English as chadah, chad(d)ar, chader, chud(d)ah, chadur, and naturalized as /tʃʌdər/, is an outer garment or open cloak worn by many women in the Persian-influenced countries of Iran, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, and to a lesser extent Tajikistan, as well as in Shia communities in Iraq, Bahrain, Lebanon, India ...
Blending the whimsical and flirty with the hot and sophisticated, Alice + Olivia’s dresses are for the modern woman who wants to make a statement. Choose from sundresses, black-tie gowns, and ...
Articles of clothing Muslim women wear under these laws or traditions range from the head-scarf to the burqa. Some contemporary clothing styles designed to be worn by either gender, such as T-shirts, have started out as menswear, but some articles, such as the fedora , originally were a style for women.