Therefore, clothes stress or hide certain parts of the body for achieving of silhouette close to the ideal of a particular time. ... The beautiful lady of that time had a lot of clothes for different times of the day. ... New fashion ideas in the early 30's showed a distinctively different length for day and evening clothes. ... The thirties ended with the Second World War and the worsening economic situation meant women could not afford new clothes. ... Everything real and graceful in women was suppressed by dirty jeans, torn running shoes, and crumpled T-shirts. ...

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Money was now available for consumer goods and fashionable clothes at all price levels (Harris 136). ... One of the strongest looks of the 1980s was "power dressing" Women wanted smart and practical clothes, which brought in the power suit with its enormous shoulder pads and short Skirts; women found it had a sense of power, it made them feel important and worth something in the dominating male working world (Harris 118). ... Exercise clothes became bright and worn casually. ... Their dirty clothes, mismatched and torn shirts gave a chosen style for "Generation X" even though not all pe...

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