We Should All Be Feminists t-shirts), looked tame in comparison with the sometimes feral riots that broke out on the streets after Christian Dior launched his New Look in 1947.The New Look was in many ways profoundly old, co-opting as it did the corsets and full skirts of the C19th and it created quite the commotion.
Millions lapped up its brazen nostalgia, romance and femininity. Others were appalled by its profligacy. The skirt alone required around 13 and a half yards of fabric at a time of acute rationing.
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