e examples are his sketches from 1920 contained in the Gazette du Bon Ton of that year. These sketches placed the abstract female figure within the context of modernity: the backgrounds referred to the industrial, mechanized, and streamlined world of railroads, cars, and steamships. For Dufy like all the modernist designers and illustrators of the early 20th century fashion embraced the new velocity of life.
             After World War I, America entered a prosperous era and came out onto the world stage. New music and new dances came on the scene.
             Clothing changed with women's changing roles in modern society, especially with the idea of freedom for women. Although society of a certain age continued to wear conservative dresses, forward-looking and younger women now made sportswear into the greatest change in post-war fashion. The 'tubular' dresses of the Teens had evolved into a similar silhouette that would make use of shorter skirts with pleats, gathers or slits to al
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