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

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   The 1930s started in depression and ended with the onset of World War II.With rising unemployment and despair, no industry was left unaffected. In the fashion industry, designers cut their prices and produced new lines of ready-to-wear clothes, along with clothing made of more economical and washable fabrics, such as rayon and nylon. [5]

4. Chiffon (fabric) - Wikipedia

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   Silk chiffon was very expensive, and it is with the development of synthetic chiffon, such as nylon chiffon, polyester chiffon, and rayon chiffon, that chiffon became more accessible and more popular for common usage. [1] [4] Since chiffon is a light-weight fabric which frays easily, bound or French seams must be used to stop the fabric from ...

5. Pleat - Wikipedia

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   A girl wearing a pleated plaid skirt. (Tekkoshocon, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2010) Shirts and blouses typically have pleats on the back to provide freedom of movement and on the arm where the sleeve tapers to meet the cuff. The standard men's shirt has a box pleat in the center of the back just below the shoulder or alternately one simple ...

6. 1930–1945 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   Frilled rayon blouses also went with the cinched waist. [5] Because clothes were rationed and fabric was scarce, the hemlines of dresses rose to knee length. The main sort of dress in the 1940s included features such as an hour glass shape figure, broad shoulders, nipped in high waist tops and A line skirts that came down to just at the knee.

7. Poet shirt - Wikipedia

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   A man wearing a ruffled white satin poet blouse. The famous Seinfeld "puffy shirt", an example of a poet shirt blouse.. A poet shirt (also known as a poet blouse or pirate shirt) is a type of shirt made as a loose-fitting blouse with full bishop sleeves, usually decorated with large frills on the front and on the cuffs. [1]

8. Collar (clothing) - Wikipedia

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   A stiff standing collar for men's formal wear, differentiated from other tall styles by the lack of tabs at the front. Italian collar: A collar on men's shirts in which the upper collar is part of the shirt facing and the undercollar is a separate piece. [5] Jabot collar: A standing collar with a pleated, ruffled, or lace-trimmed frill down the ...

9. Ruff (clothing) - Wikipedia

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   A ruff from the early 17th century: detail from The Regentesses of St Elizabeth Hospital, Haarlem, by Verspronck A ruff from the 1620s. A ruff is an item of clothing worn in Western, Central and Northern Europe, as well as Spanish America, from the mid-16th century to the mid-17th century.