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Women employees of the Aluminum Co. of Kingston, Ontario wear knee-length skirts with blouses or sweaters (often with a string of graduated pearls), 1943. Women's fashion in Europe (Hungary, 1943). Singer Peggy Lee wears a pompadour hairstyle and an evening dress with a "sweetheart" neckline in the film Stage Door Canteen , 1943.
Uzbek women in Afghanistan still typically wear a burqa when leaving the home. [10] In modern times, Uzbek women often wear bright-colored knee-length dresses with loose pants known as ishton or lozim underneath. Some Uzbek women have started wearing the hijab and dresses with long sleeves, but the practice is not widespread. [4]
Sleeves of morning dresses were narrow throughout the period, with a tendency to flare slightly at the wrist early on. Women often draped overskirts to produce an apronlike effect from the front. Gowns had low necklines and very short, off-the-shoulder sleeves, and were worn with short (later mid-length) gloves .
The fashion for women was all about letting loose. Women wore dresses all day, every day. Day dresses had a drop waist, which was a belt around the low waist or hip and a skirt that hung anywhere from the ankle on up to the knee, never above. Daywear had sleeves (long to mid-bicep) and a skirt that was straight, pleated, hank hem, or tiered.
Standing woman in a white dress with leg o'mutton sleeves. By René Schützenberger, 1895.. Fashionable women's clothing styles shed some of the extravagances of previous decades (so that skirts were neither crinolined as in the 1850s, nor protrudingly bustled in back as in the late 1860s and mid-1880s, nor tight as in the late 1870s), but corseting continued unmitigated, or even slightly ...
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The new bridesmaid’s dress will join other items linked to Elizabeth and Philip’s 1947 wedding, including Hartnell’s original sketches, “meaning the original design sketch of the ...
Evening dress and evening glove by Dior, silk taffeta, 1954. Indianapolis Museum of Art. Natalie Wood (center, with Tab Hunter) and Louella Parsons wear ballerina-length evening dresses at the Academy Awards, 1956. With his revolutionary New Look, Christian Dior wrote a new chapter in the history of fashion.