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2. Hemline - Wikipedia

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   [2] 1927 saw "flapper length" skirts at the kneecap and higher before shifting down again in the 1930s. [ 2 ] From World War I to roughly 1970, women were under social pressure to wear skirts near to the currently fashionable length or be considered unstylish, but since the 1970s, women's options have widened and there is no longer only one ...

3. Hobble skirt - Wikipedia

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   A year later, eighteen-year-old Ida Goyette stumbled on an Erie Canal bridge while wearing a hobble skirt, fell over the railing, and drowned. [4] To prevent women from splitting their skirts, some women wore a fetter or tied their legs together at the knee. [1] [8] Some designers made alterations to the hobble skirt to allow for greater ...

4. 1930–1945 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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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.

5. 1945–1960 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   Day dresses had fitted bodices and full skirts, with jewel or low-cut necklines or Peter Pan collars. Shirtdresses, with a shirt-like bodice, were popular, as were halter-top sundresses. Skirts were narrow or very full, held out with petticoats; poodle skirts were a brief fad. Evening dresses were ankle-length (called "ballerina length").

6. Bloomers - Wikipedia

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   They were most popular from the 1910s to the 1930s but continued to be worn by older women for several decades thereafter. More recently, the term bloomers has often been used interchangeably with the pantalettes worn by women and girls in the early 19th century and the open-leg knee-length drawers of the mid 19th and early 20th centuries.

7. How Queen Elizabeth II's Style Evolved: From Skirts to Gowns ...

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   “The lengths of her skirts did change a little bit,” the Queen: 70 Years of Majestic Style author told Us Weekly exclusively on Monday, September 12. “She never went, like, full miniskirt in ...