... casting and possibly be labeled as a "loose woman." In the beginning of the 1910-decade it was similar to the 1900's, until 1914 when World War I broke out. The tight corset was gone and the hobble skirt made an entrance. It was called the hobble skirt because it was so tight women could not walk, they had to hobble (Peacock 52 ... made of chiffon, stiff satin and taffeta with whalebone corsets sewn into the dress gave women an ultra-feminine "hourglass" figure. During the latter part of the 1950's, however, the corset was cast off for a more comfortable feel and a more natural look. Al...

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... slim, tall, thin lines preferred today. Therefore, clothes stress or hide certain parts of the body for achieving of silhouette close to the ideal of a particular time. For example, the corset was used to make woman's waist thinner in the Victorian era, when the ideal was S-shape figure. Only in the XX century mankind remembered natural lines of a woman's body and ... stopped the deformation of the trunk by the corset, which reflected the notion that true women were men's complementary opposites. Technical developments (the telephone, electric lights) in the 1900's that were affecting e...

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... time of the day into the new designs. In the early fifties the average woman would be seen wearing straight, slender dress and pants that had to be worn with a corset to hold everything in. The outfit was not totally complete unless the proper types of gloves were worn. The glove was an important factor to any outfit. Most gloves that ... ...

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