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If youre rocking an hourglass figure, mermaid or fitted A-line dresses will hug your curves in all the right places

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Starting with the wrong fabric will not only make you very uncomfortable, but it will instantly turn your stylish outfit into a stylish outfit for the wrong season

Two men were instrumental in Mademoiselle Chanels first fashion venture

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Relationships between upper-class women and their servants had changed, becoming less intimate and more authoritarian, as the sociologist Diana Crane puts it