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2. 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]

3. 1920s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. Callot Soeurs - Wikipedia

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   Callot Soeurs's day dresses were well received at the 1915 Universal Exhibition in San Francisco. [5] In 1916, Henri Bendel was the largest buyer of Callot Soeurs in New York City. [ 6 ] That same year, American Vogue dubbed the sisters the Three Fates, and declared them "foremost among the powers that rule the destinies of a woman's life and ...

5. Roaring Twenties - Wikipedia

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   The fashion for women was all about getting loose. Women wore dresses all day, every day. Day dresses had a drop waist, which was a sash or 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 tired.

6. Plus-size clothing - Wikipedia

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   Mary Duffy's Big Beauties was the first model agency to work with hundreds of new plus-size clothing lines and advertisers. For two decades, this plus-size category produced the largest per annum percentage increases in ready-to-wear retailing. Max Mara started Marina Rinaldi, one of the first high-end clothing lines, for plus-size women in ...

7. How fatphobia influences what fashions are considered ... - AOL

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   How fatphobia influences what fashions are considered 'flattering' — and why plus-size women are tired of being told to 'dress for your figure' Meghan De Maria March 13, 2024 at 11:00 AM