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At this time women wore silk dresses in dark colors, accompanied by mesh stockings and flat shoes. Women also wore accessories like feathered hats, long necklaces in pearls and cigarette mouthpieces.
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In 1940, women began to wear slacks, generating new ideas of freedom of expression. Women began wearing menswear such as long-sleeved shirts and slacks.
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The time of the “New look” was a stylish fashion using silk skirts and very elegant and delicate accessories, they also used dark hats and bags.
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In the 1950’s, women wore shorts skirts, dresses to stand out her hourglass shape, head accessories such as: hats, veils and fascinators.
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Fashion was a desire for freedom of young people who decided what to wear and became accessible via prêt-à-porter was the mini skirt.
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The hippies started to influence on fashion , wearing clothes such as dresses, kaftans, Indian tunics, gypsy clothing, and ethnic jewelry. During the military dictatorship in Brazil, fashion was one on the few ways of expression.
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The 1980s was a decade of yuppie, power and consumption. The shapes were exaggerated with wide and loose shoulders. Well dressed yuppies .
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Inspiration also came from sports: new technological fabrics which formed the body and allow movement.
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The woman chose what was trendy and at the same time they learned to hide what they did not like, empowering their strengths.
