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- FASHION -
1920s DESIGNER DRESSES
With a collection
of color fashion prints
and an assortment of period photographs from the
Library of Congress, we can compare the
idealistic sketches of the fashion designer and
the actual visualization of his work on a paying
customer. Some designs appeared as magnificent
recreations of the hand-colored prints, while
others emerged as an incongruous masquerade
costume. Many were worn by women of wealth,
who, although they could afford the couture
ensemble, sadly their size and appearance did
not do the design justice.
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