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2. Dress form - Wikipedia

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   Dress forms of 1893. A dress form is a three-dimensional model of the human torso used for fitting clothing that is being designed or sewed.When making a piece of clothing, it can be put on the dress form so that one can see the fit and drape of the garment as it would appear on a body and make adjustments or alterations.

3. Clothing terminology - Wikipedia

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   The Bloomer Costume was a type of women's clothing introduced in the Antebellum period, that changed the style from dresses to a more male-type style, which was devised by Amelia Bloomer. The Wellington boot was a cavalry boot devised by the Duke of Wellington , originally made from leather, but now normally rubber.

4. 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 ...

5. Women's oversized fashion in the United States since the 1920s

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   The 1930s started in depression and ended with the onset of World War II.With rising unemployment and despair, no industry was left unaffected. In the fashion industry, designers cut their prices and produced new lines of ready-to-wear clothes, along with clothing made of more economical and washable fabrics, such as rayon and nylon. [5]

6. Mannequin - Wikipedia

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   Mannequins in a clothing shop in Canada A mannequin in North India. A mannequin (sometimes spelled as manikin and also called a dummy, lay figure, or dress form) is a doll, often articulated, used by artists, tailors, dressmakers, window dressers and others, especially to display or fit clothing and show off different fabrics and textiles.

7. Like It or Not, These Y2K Trends Are Making a Comeback - AOL

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   Shoulder Bags. SJP, Y2K fashion It girl, shows off that strange combo of "long simple dress plus fancy shoes and casual bag"that was an important part of your life if you went to college in the ...