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| | Fashion in the 1900s |
 | | In first decade of the 1900s, fashionable women needed morning dresses, afternoon dresses, evening gowns, and simpler dresses that were less occasion-specific. |
 | | Social rituals, especially the custom of formal visiting, dictated the use of each of these dresses, or gowns, as the fancier garments were called. |
 | | No matter what type of garment, womens clothing in the early 1900s was designed to show off a womans tightly corseted torso. |
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