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Western fashion in the 1920s underwent a modernization. Women's fashion continued to evolve from the restrictions of gender roles and traditional styles of the Victorian era. [ 1 ] Women wore looser clothing which revealed more of the arms and legs, that had begun at least a decade prior with the rising of hemlines to the ankle and the movement ...
Blue remained most popular for Egyptian men until the 1920s. [ 29 ] Much like how most galabiya bi sufra were patterned after western fashion, a few surviving Delta telli dresses were modified from their T shape and made to have an emulation of mutton sleeves, tight chests, and flared hems. [ 29 ]
The Flapper generation of 1920s flattened their chests to adopt the fashionable "boy-girl" look by either bandaging their breasts or by using bust flatteners. [111] Corsets started to go out of fashion by 1917, when metal was needed to make tanks and munitions for World War I [112] and due to the vogue for boyish figures. [113]
1920s Egyptian films (3 P) S. 1920s in Egyptian sport (3 C) 1920s in Sudan (6 C, 1 P) Pages in category "1920s in Egypt" This category contains only the following page.
1920s in Egypt (17 C, 1 P) 1930s in Egypt (17 C, 1 P) ... Pages in category "20th century in Egypt" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
The initial response to the revolution was by the Egyptian police force in Cairo, although control was handed off to Major-General H. D. Watson and his military forces in the city within a few days. [18] By 25 July 1919, 800 Egyptians were killed, and 1,600 others were wounded. [19]
The lighthearted, forward-looking attitude and fashions of the late 1920s lingered through most of 1930, [3] but by the end of that year the effects of the Great Depression began to affect the public, and a more conservative approach to fashion displaced that of the 1920s. For women, skirts became longer and the waist-line was returned up to ...
Sheath dress. In fashion, a sheath dress is a fitted, straight cut dress, often nipped at the waistline with no waist seam. [1] When constructing the dress, the bodice and skirt are joined together by combining the skirt darts into one dart: this aligns the skirt darts with the bodice waist dart. [2]