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The catalog of the Hamilton Garment Co. department and mail-order house for spring and summer 1922 presented, in addition to the shorter calf-length skirt, many models with a low waistline. Fashionable was the robe de style dress with tightly cut bodice and baroque-like wide skirt with ample fabric fullness. While coats showed up a few inches shorter than skirts, the first hats were offered specifically for "bobbed hair."

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By the turn of 1932/33, puffed sleeves and the broadened shoulder line became increasingly popular. The January 1933 issue of Modenschau No. 241 presented some 150 models of dresses for day, afternoon and visiting, as well as evening dresses, ladies' coats, costumes for carnival or communion dresses for girls. One article asked the controversial question "Should women leave the labor force?"

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The French fashion magazine La Coquette No. 167 for December 1926 displayed on 28 pages some 100 models of afternoon dresses, winter coats, street costumes and wedding dresses as well as elegant evening and ball gowns for festive dance events at the turn of the year 1926/27.

One color page presents an impressive period dress for the evening, which broke the straight fashion line of the time with its baroque-like flared skirt.

New York mail-order company Charles William Stores Inc. featured the latest in women's, men's and children's fashions in its fall and winter catalog for 1925-26 — 150 of the 330 pages are now online. In addition to the straight lines of women's fashions, the new bell-shaped wide skirt competed for supremacy in dresses and coats. Men's suits received another cut and were worn with new wide pants.

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With 244 pages, Philipsborn's Fall and Winter catalog for 1919-20 is now completely online with all original English item descriptions — previously only 130 pages have been published. Women's dresses and skirts in 1919 featured the peg-top silhouette through protruding pockets or draped fabric and tapered to the hem of the skirt. Double ruching or frills standing up both sides or scroll embroidery were distinctive fashion notes.

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