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2. Suit jacket - Wikipedia

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   [6] [7] [8] Today, jackets come in different lengths, but the classic is one in which the jacket covers the buttocks, the sleeves reach the wrist, and the cuff of the shirt extends out a couple of centimeters from under the sleeve of the jacket. [9]

3. Suit - Wikipedia

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   U.S. Ambassador to the U.N Samantha Power and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin wearing business wear suits as per their gender, 2016. The word suit derives from the French suite, [3] meaning "following," from some Late Latin derivative form of the Latin verb sequor = "I follow," because the component garments (jacket and trousers and waistcoat) follow each other and have the same cloth and ...

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. History of suits - Wikipedia

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   Another style associated with this was the leisure suit, which had a long-sleeved shirt-like jacket. The Disco suit, a fashion of the 1970s with wide lapels and flared trousers and usually necktie omitting, often in white or brightly coloured polyester fabric, the jacket was based on the jackets popular in the 1930s.

6. U.S. standard clothing size - Wikipedia

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   In 1958, the National Bureau of Standards invented a new sizing system, based on the hourglass figure and using only the bust size to create an arbitrary standard of sizes ranging from 8 to 38, with an indication for height (short, regular, and tall) and lower-body girth (plus or minus). The resulting commercial standard was not widely popular ...

7. Casual wear - Wikipedia

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   Casual wear (or casual attire or clothing) is a Western dress code that is relaxed, occasional, spontaneous and suited for everyday use. Casual wear became popular in the Western world following the counterculture of the 1960s .