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An Evening at the Casino

An Evening at the Casino
Fashionable women of the early 1920s adopted the tubular line, as this Paris fashion plate from 1920 indicates. The waistline, hips, and bust disappeared, and some women wore a “flattener” to achieve the effect. Skirts remained long but revealed the ankle and lower leg.
Private Collection/Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York
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