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| Chiffon
dress with chevron tiers and uneven hem, c. 1920, from The Roaring
Twenties. |
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Uneven
Hem
This tiered dress from the 1920s uses an uneven hem to great effect.
Earlier uneven hems were usually found on overskirts with even or
trained hems on the underskirts. |
| Utility
dress, 1948,combining plain and dotted frabics from Betty
of the Gallant 1940s. |
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Utility
Dress
The utility dress of the 1940s was an effort to be fashionable
while conserving rationed fabric. Utitlity style garments had some,
neat details and often used contrasting fabric for collars, cuffs
and similar details - sometimes because sufficient lengths of the
main fabric were unavailable.
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