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The high neck and long sleeves indicate it would have been for a daytime event, but the light coloured silk of the base fabric and the train suggests it was intended for formal indoor wear only

( #domesticJess) So its now pretty much reserved for flats only unless its a Saturday night out

A fashionable flapper had short sleek hair, a shorter than average shapeless shift dress, a chest as flat as a board, wore makeup and applied it in public, smoked with a long cigarette holder, exposed her limbs, and epitomized the spirit of a reckless rebel who danced the nights away in the Jazz Age

The creation of these garments involves complex dressmaking techniques, from built-in corsetry that ensures a flawless fit to voluminous skirts and sleek, pooling trains