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2. 50 Secondhand Finds That Are As Strange As They Are Wonderful

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   Image credits: Weird And Wonderful Secondhand Finds The BBC reports that, based on the findings by secondhand fashion retailer ThredUp, a whopping 67% of British millennials shop secondhand, while ...

3. Mantua (clothing) - Wikipedia

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   A mantua (from the French manteuil or 'mantle') is an article of women's clothing worn in the late 17th century and 18th century. Initially a loose gown, the later mantua was an overgown or robe typically worn over stays, stomacher and either a co-ordinating or contrasting petticoat. The mantua or manteau was a new fashion that arose in the ...

4. 1850s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   1859 fashion plate of both men's and women's daywear, with seabathing in background. He wears the new leisure fashion, the sack coat.. 1850s fashion in Western and Western-influenced clothing is characterized by an increase in the width of women's skirts supported by crinolines or hoops, the mass production of sewing machines, and the beginnings of dress reform.

5. Fashion - Wikipedia

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   Fashion is defined in a number of different ways, and its application can be sometimes unclear. Though the term fashion connotes difference, as in "the new fashions of the season", it can also connote sameness, for example in reference to "the fashions of the 1960s", implying a general uniformity. Fashion can signify the latest trends, but may ...

6. 1920s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   The fashion for women was all about letting loose. Women wore dresses all day, every day. Day dresses had a drop waist, which was a belt around the low waist or hip and a skirt that hung anywhere from the ankle on up to the knee, never above. Daywear had sleeves (long to mid-bicep) and a skirt that was straight, pleated, hank hem, or tiered.

7. 16 Bizarre Careers for Women That No Longer Exist

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   Heoibikuni. During the Edo period, from 1603 to 1867, Japanese culture birthed an odd job known as heoibikuni. These female servants cared for noble young ladies and accompanied them on every ...