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These new textile designs included uneven repetitions and linear geometric patterns. Many textile patterns produced in the United States also incorporated images of both jazz bands and people dancing to jazz. [20] The print Rhapsody shows a textile produced in 1925 representing a jazz band in a polka-dot like manner. [21]
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There are many types of Norfolk jacket, with variations including the type of pleat used, and the style of the belt. Popular varieties today include the full Norfolk jacket, which features three or four buttons in a single-breasted layout, with pleats and a full belt; and the half Norfolk jacket which is less pleated and has only a half belt.
Today, sleeve garters are part of the costume of poker dealers and other card dealers in casinos.While this is widely understood to make it more difficult for the dealer to cheat by concealing a card in his sleeve, the sleeve garter is usually accompanied by a vest and bow tie (and sometimes a visor), suggesting this usage might date to late 19th and early 20th-century fashion as much as it ...
Woman wearing a "sport suit," American, June 1920. Sportswear originally described interchangeable separates, as here. Signed "Evans, LA" Sportswear is an American fashion term originally used to describe separates, but which since the 1930s has come to be applied to day and evening fashions of varying degrees of formality that demonstrate a specific relaxed approach to their design, while ...
Hunt, Marsha: The Way We Wore: Styles of the 1930s and '40s and Our World Since Then, Fallbrook Pub. Ltd., 1993, ISBN 1-882747-00-3 LaValley, Satch: "Hollywood and Seventh Avenue: The Impact of Historical Films on Fashion", in Hollywood and History: Costume Design in Film , Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Thames and Hudson, 1987, ISBN 0-500 ...
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The tiered skirt foreshadows the shorter skirts that would arise in the early 1920s. Portrait of 1917 shows the deep V-neckline that was popular after 1913, worn over a camisole. Winter shoe, 1917; Draped turban, 1917; Toque of 1917 New York design; Elzee hat by Levis-Zukoski Mercantile Co of Missouri; Hat by D. B. Fisk & Co. of Chicago, 1917