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2. 1920s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   The 1920s are characterized by two distinct periods of fashion: in the early part of the decade, change was slower, and there was more reluctance to wear the new, revealing popular styles. From 1925, the public more passionately embraced the styles now typically associated with the Roaring Twenties.

3. Sheath dress - Wikipedia

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   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] The dress emphasizes the waist as its ...

4. Waistline (clothing) - Wikipedia

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   Joséphine de Beauharnais wearing a dress with an empire waist. The waistline is the line of demarcation between the upper and lower portions of a garment, which notionally corresponds to the natural waist but may vary with fashion from just below the bust to below the hips. The waistline of a garment is often used to accentuate different features.

5. Flapper - Wikipedia

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   Flapper dresses were straight and loose, leaving the arms bare (sometimes no straps at all) and dropping the waistline to the hips. Silk or rayon stockings were held up by garters. Skirts rose to just below the knee by 1927, allowing flashes of leg to be seen when a girl danced or walked through a breeze, although the way they danced made any ...

6. Shift dress - Wikipedia

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   A shift dress is a dress in which the cloth falls straight from the shoulders and has darts around the bust. It frequently features a high scoop or boat neck. [ 3] Shift dresses are often confused with the sheath dress, which is form-fitting and shaped by tucks on the waist area. Shift dresses became popular in western fashion in the 1920s and ...

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

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   The 1920s Chiffon evening dress, 1921. The 1920s were marked by a post-war aesthetic. After World War I, the fashion world experienced a great switch: from tight corsets and hobble skirts—to shapeless, oversized, and sparsely decorated garments. Women began to wear more comfortable fashions, including blousy skirts and trousers.