Shirt dress
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The Hemdblusenkleid is from a blouse , so a blouse in Mr cut with collar and cuffs or cuffs , and attached thereto skirt composite dress or a dress in the tunic section with by a seam and / a belt or remote waist .
It first appeared in the form of a smock dress at Coco Chanel in 1916. Loosely referred to as a sackcloth , it was particularly popular in the second half of the 1950s. It was launched in Balenciaga's I line , established itself in Dior's tunics as early as 1956 and was varied many times in the following years by Balenciaga, Givenchy and Mary Quant .
In contemporary film, the sackcloth appears prominently in Audrey Hepburn's 1957 film A Sweet Face , where, as an intellectual bookseller, she wears the epitome of the rather unfavorable sackcloth reminiscent of work clothes, but after her transformation its much more chic variant.
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literature
- Ingrid Loschek : Reclam's fashion and costume lexicon. 5th edition Reclam, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-15-010577-3 , pp. 260f.
- NJ Stevenson: The History of Fashion. Styles, trends and stars. Haupt, Bern et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-258-60032-1 , pp. 158f.
- FV Feyerabend, F. Ghosh: Forms and styles of fashion. Templates for fashion design & bilingual reference work (German-English). 2nd edition Stiebner, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-8307-0843-8 , p. 48