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2. Southern belle - Wikipedia

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   Southern belles were expected to marry respectable young men, and become ladies of society dedicated to the family and community. [1] The Southern belle archetype is characterized by Southern hospitality, a cultivation of beauty, and a flirtatious yet chaste demeanor. [2] For example, Sallie Ward, who was born into the planter class of Kentucky ...

3. Sallie Ward - Wikipedia

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   Ward was a Southern belle and socialite. [4] She spoke French and played several instruments. [2] She became one of the first women in the United States to wear cosmetics and wore daring outfits. [2] She organized one of the first proper-style dress balls in Kentucky. [4] She paved the way for wearing several types of dresses during a given ...

4. Infant clothing - Wikipedia

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   Infant clothing or baby clothing is clothing made for infants. Baby fashion is a social-cultural consumerist practice that encodes in children's fashion the representation of many social features and depicts a system characterized by differences in social class, richness, gender, or ethnicity.

5. 1860s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   Ellinor Guthrie wears a black satin dress trimmed with passementerie, 1865. English shot (changeable) silk taffeta morning dress is trimmed with silk satin and machine-made lace, c. 1865. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.2007.211.942a-b. Emilie Menzel wears her hair in a net snood. Her morning dress has a pointed waist and slightly puffed ...

6. Sack-back gown - Wikipedia

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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.

7. Ruffle (sewing) - Wikipedia

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   In sewing and dressmaking, a ruffle, frill, or furbelow is a strip of fabric, lace or ribbon tightly gathered or pleated on one edge and applied to a garment, bedding, or other textile as a form of trimming. [1] Ruffles can be made from a single layer of fabric (which may need a hem) or a doubled layer. Plain ruffles are usually cut on the ...