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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").
A poodle skirt is a wide swing felt skirt of a solid color displaying a design appliquéd or transferred to the fabric. [1] The design was often a coiffed poodle. Later substitutes for the poodle patch included flamingoes, flowers, and hot rod cars. [2] Hemlines were to the knee or just below it.
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[50] Andre Courreges was a French fashion designer who also began experimenting with hemlines in the early 1960s. He started to show space-age dresses that hit above the knee in late 1964. His designs were more structured and sophisticated than Quant's design. [citation needed] This made the miniskirt more acceptable to the French public.
A crowd gathers outside the south portico of the White House to attend Franklin D. Roosevelt's 4th Inaugural speech on January 20, 1945 in Washington D.C. Franklin D. Roosevelt - 1941
A swing skirt is a vintage knee-length retro skirt [1] typical of the 1960s, but first introduced in the 1930s. [ 2 ] This circular skirt tended to swing when the wearer was in motion, [ 3 ] movement induced by the use of numerous pleats or tucks .
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At the beginning of the century, the sack-back gown was a very informal style of dress. At its most informal, it was unfitted both front and back and called a sacque, contouche, or robe battante. By the 1770s the sack-back gown was second only to court dress in its formality.