By 1910 the enormous hat was fashionable. Hobbled skirts and small turbans were introduced from France in 1910. This effectively put an end to both the Edwardian and Gibson Girl styles.
The revolt by women against social and political restrictions was accompanied by the disappearance of the corset. Almost for the first time in five centuries, the natural shape of women reappeared.
After World War I, women began to show their legs. By the mid-1920s skirts were long waisted and at the knee. Dresses were simple and tubular. By the 1930s women were wearing trousers.
Skirt length in the 20th century rose and fell. The long skirts of the 1930s were accompanied by puffed sleeves. The culmination of the short skirt occurred in the 1960s.
Although a variety of hats replaced the cloche of the 1920s, both hats and gloves, at least in the United States, went completely out of fashion.
Men's fashions continued a trend towards casualness. The hat virtually disappeared in the United States by 1960. Ties and trouser legs widened and narrowed, cuffs came and went, but men's clothing remained loose.
Western industry and commerce has spread its influence into areas of the world where fashion in costume was unknown. The Western business suit has increasingly displaced the classical and traditional costumes of other continents and nations.
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