... masculine image by making hair secondary to a woman's beauty. Corsets, which women had been wearing for centuries, suddenly lost their market. Available fashion was simply not designed to encompass the corset. Instead, women began to wear braziers. The idea of wearing less obtrusive undergarments influenced women to show more leg by wearing shorter dresses and skirts. Women of the 1920s became ... ...
... forties had finally made the transition to two separate pieces, the bra and the girdle. The term "bra" was now widely used to identify the upper portion of the outdated corset (something like usually close-fitting). Leather platform shoes were the rage. Their soles were often studded with "nail heads", another sign of opulence and luxury after the severe metal rationing ... ...
... masculine image by making hair secondary to a woman's beauty. Corsets, which women had been wearing for centuries, suddenly lost their market. Available fashion was simply not designed to encompass the corset. Instead, women began to wear braziers. The idea of wearing less obtrusive undergarments influenced women to show more leg by wearing shorter dresses and skirts. Women of the 1920s became ... ...
