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The straight leg wide-trousers (the standard size was 23 inches at the cuff) that men had worn in the 1920s also became tapered at the bottom for the first time around 1935. The new suit was adopted enthusiastically by Hollywood stars including Fred Astaire , Cary Grant , and Gary Cooper , who became the new fashion trendsetters after the ...
Portrait of a woman wearing a heavily ruffled cap, 1789 Mechanical ruffler by Singer, used on domestic sewing machines. 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.
The ruff, which was worn by men, women and children, evolved from the small fabric ruffle at the neck of the shirt or chemise. Ruffs served as changeable pieces of cloth that could themselves be laundered separately while keeping the wearer's doublet or gown from becoming soiled at the neckline. The stiffness of the garment forced upright ...
A man wearing a ruffled white satin poet blouse. The famous Seinfeld "puffy shirt", an example of a poet shirt blouse.. A poet shirt (also known as a poet blouse or pirate shirt) is a type of shirt made as a loose-fitting blouse with full bishop sleeves, usually decorated with large frills on the front and on the cuffs. [1]
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With matching suede gloves and heels, the then-46-year-old wore a powder-blue turtlenecked cropped jacket with an up do. The price of the dress was never disclosed.
Pagoda sleeve: A wide, bell-shaped sleeve popular in the 1860s, worn over an engageante or false undersleeve Paned sleeve: A sleeve made in panes or panels, allowing a lining or shirt-sleeve to show through (16th and 17th centuries) petal or tulip sleeve A sleeve that has one curved overlapping seam, resembling the petals of a tulip. Poet sleeve
After over 100 people were killed in a South Korea plane accident, here are the worst accidents and crashes in aviation history.