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2. 1650–1700 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   Instead of a bodice and skirt cut separately, the mantua hung from the shoulders to the floor (in the manner of dresses of earlier periods) started off as the female version of the men's Banyan, worn for 'undress' wear. Gradually it developed into a draped and pleated dress and eventually evolved into a dress worn looped and draped up over a ...

3. History of cleavage - Wikipedia

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   Ball gowns and evening gowns especially had low, square décolletage that was designed to display and emphasize cleavage. [ 43 ] [ 44 ] In many European societies between the Renaissance and the 19th century, wearing low-cut dresses that exposed breasts was more acceptable than it is in the early 21st century; bared female legs, ankles and ...

4. 1700–1750 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   The costume of the eighteenth century, if lacking in the refinement and grace of earlier times, was distinctly quaint and picturesque. [1] Distinction was made in this period between full dress worn at court and for formal occasions, and undress or everyday, daytime clothes. As the decades progressed, fewer and fewer occasions called for full ...

5. 1600–1650 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   In England from the 1630s, under the influence of literature and especially court masques, Anthony van Dyck and his followers created a fashion for having one's portrait painted in exotic, historical or pastoral dress, or in simplified contemporary fashion with various scarves, cloaks, mantles, and jewels added to evoke a classic or romantic mood, and also to prevent the portrait appearing ...

6. 1750–1775 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   Under new enthusiasms for outdoor sports and country pursuits, the elaborately embroidered silks and velvets characteristic of "full dress" or formal attire earlier in the century gradually gave way to carefully tailored woollen "undress" garments for most occasions, whilst continuing to be worn for more formal ones (e.g. Balls, receptions ...

7. How Juliet Capulet Changed the Way We Dress - AOL

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   Her “costume” for the famous masked ball is a super-sparkly cocktail dress with glittery blue eyeshadow. ... (Think of Shakespeare’s costume trunks as the 17th-century version of The ...