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2. Androgyny in fashion - Wikipedia

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   Women's cycling suit advertisement, 1897. In the Victorian era, many upper-class women adopted more masculine-styled fashion for sports. This was a source of great anxiety, as some believed this supposed "masculinization" of women would lead to "the "degeneration" of the genders". [4]

3. Flapper - Wikipedia

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   The flapper lifestyle and look disappeared and the roaring '20s era of glitz and glamour came to an end in America after the Wall Street Crash of 1929. [105] Unable to afford the latest trends and lifestyle, the once-vibrant flapper women returned to their dropped hemlines, and the flapper dress disappeared.

4. Women's suffrage and Western women's fashion through the ...

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   One specific piece of clothing was the sporting pantaloon or the women's bloomer; [4] originally worn in America in the 1850s as a women's suffrage statement by Amelia Bloomer, it turned into the ideal costume for women riding bicycles - an activity that was considered acceptable for women to participate in during the late 19th century. This ...

5. 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 ...

6. Shift dress - Wikipedia

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   The shift dress gained popularity during the Western flapper movement in the 1920s. [2] Changing social norms meant that young women could choose a style of dress that was easier to move and dance in, and the shift dress marked a departure from previously fashionable corset designs, which exaggerated the bust and waist while restricting movement.

7. List of garments having different names in American and ...

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   Track suit trousers: Long leg bottoms made out of any fabric with elastic at the bottom joggers, [21] jogging bottoms, tracksuit bottoms [22] joggers, [24] pants Long leg bottoms trousers, [25] pants [26] (Northern England only) [27] pants [26] garment worn over genitals as underwear - gender specific term (women) knickers [28] panties [29]