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gertrudeandalice.com In the 1900's, if you were a fashionable young English lady of the social elite, you would make a twice annual pilgrimage in Paris, joining other women as far as New York and St. Petersburg.
 * Womens fashion in 1910 **
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During the months of march and later in September,droves of women were seen entering the studios. in these often cramped shops, with seamstresses working feverishly in the backrooms, you would meet your own vendeuse, who would help you choose your wardrobe for the coming season. together with your vendeuse, you would choose the following six months worth of wardrobe:lingeries, morning gowns, afternoon gowns,walking dresses, cycling combinations, costumes for traveling in a train or motor car, evening gowns to lounge, a gown each for a special occasion, like ascot, a wedding, theatre. a list as endless as your purse allowed. Any lady of good class would try and force herself, into restrictive, suffocating boned corsets.
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 * Undergarments** were your corset which was built to push the upper body forward in a "pigeon front", while shoving the hips back.

Women in the 1910 tended to change alot during the day. They started with morning outfits to afternoon dresses and then to a tea gown which by this time it would be 5 p.m. and then lastly they would end there day with a evening gown which was usually changed into by 8 p.m.. throughout your day you would usually change your stockings at least twice. Lower class women usually wore thin worn out dresses. very rag like. not tight fitting at all. they often had stains and holes and also rips in them. they never really wore hats of any sorts. they mostly just wore their hair up with a head band or bonnet.
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Middle class women wore more of a tighter dress. the often wore big fancy hats, and gloves. they

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different from the upper class women, there's just a few differences. they did wear corsets that curved their back kinda into a S shape. blogspot.com, wordpress.com

These upper class women wore tailored jackets, high heeled boots, and long skirts. Like the middle class women they wore a silhouette that moved along a decreasing s-curve from 1901 to 1910. At the beach these girls let there legs show more and more each year.later on in the years they started the trend of the puffy shoulders. they also had Car coats for the fall and winter weather.

one other interesting development in the early fashion years, was the introduction of a matching colored blouse the first step towards a day wear style which was destined to become the staple for a women's day suit.

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Coco Chanel adored this basic dress style with her fondness for the popular american jumper ( a blouse that hangs from shoulder to below the waist and tied with a loose girdle belt) she adapted the local jersey jumpers worn by sailors. she opened a store and created a women's cardigan that soon became the look of the 1920's.

The designer Jeanne Lanvin specialized in young girls wear. she loved the basic simplicity, and began to create summer shift dresses.

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