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2. Dress - Wikipedia

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   Dresses can have sleeves of any length or can be sleeveless, and dresses can have any neckline. Similarly, dresses can have skirts of any length or hemline. These variances may be based on considerations such as fashion trends, modesty, weather, and personal taste. [3] Dresses are generally suitable for both formal wear and casual wear in the ...

3. Houppelande - Wikipedia

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   A houppelande or houpelande is an outer garment, with a long, full body and flaring sleeves, that was worn by both men and women in Europe in the late Middle Ages. Sometimes the houppelande was lined with fur. The garment was later worn by professional classes, and has remained in Western civilization as the familiar academic and legal robes of ...

4. Casual wear - Wikipedia

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   Casual wear (or casual attire or clothing) is a Western dress code that is relaxed, occasional, spontaneous and suited for everyday use. Casual wear became popular in the Western world following the counterculture of the 1960s. When emphasising casual wear's comfort, it may be referred to as leisurewear or loungewear.

5. Formal wear - Wikipedia

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   The most formal dress for women is a full-length ball or evening gown with evening gloves. Some white tie functions also request that the women wear long gloves past the elbow. Formal wear being the most formal dress code, it is followed by semi-formal wear, equivalently based around daytime black lounge suit, and evening black tie (dinner suit ...

6. Clothing sizes - Wikipedia

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   The B fitting adds 12 cm and the T height modifier 4 cm to the base hip measurement 89 + 16 = 105 cm. [13] Additionally there are a set of age based waist adjustments, such that a dress marketed at someone in their 60s may allow for a waist 9 cm larger than a dress, of the same size, marketed at someone in their 20s. The age based adjustments ...

7. Russian Court Dress - Wikipedia

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   A single court attire consisted of a velvet top dress with long folding sleeves and a train. In front, at the bottom of the waist, there was a slit that opened a skirt made of arbitrary white matter, most often satin. Along the "tail and slide" of the dress was gold embroidery, "the same as the sewing of the ceremonial uniforms of the court ranks."