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This would have been considered undergarments and would have been the height of inappropriate

The rich burgundy color acts as a bold but wearable alternative to traditional black or navy dress slacks

These women were the fin de sicle equivalent of medieval merchants

It was also the era when fashion icons began embracing masculine tailoring to redefine what femininity could look like

The history of the smoking jacket is directly related to that of the tuxedo: in fact, the dinner jacket as we know it today evolved from the smoking jacket, which was invented as a cover-up to protect clothing when men retired to smoke after dinner