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Old 05-22-2009, 11:25 AM   #3026
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Originally Posted by Morrigoon View Post
Best as I could tell from that site, the exhibit is on a designer who got her start in the post-corseted period following WWI?
Madame Vionnet introduced the bias cut where the fabric is cut on an angle so that the finished garment clings and moves with the body. Jean Harlow owes her a lot.

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