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When I look at pictures of my grandparents in back in the fifties and sixties I am so jealous of how amazing they all look

The rise of Diors New Look in the post-war era and the sexual conservatism of the 1950s returned the little black dress to its roots as a uniform of fashionable women everywhere

To cut the cake with her new husband, she changed into a lace column gown by Oscar de La Renta with a halter neckline and a low bow

There can be poor executions of both bias-and straight-cut garments and beautiful masterpieces on both ends. As Carlton originally noted, plenty of non-atelier brands still use the technique and sell at reasonable priceslike ATM Anthony Thomas Melillo, Reformation, Cinq Sept, and Ghost London (the very skirt that began the heated debate), so it's not exactly in the line of extinction