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The Madonna/Evita/Dior combination may generate only token changes in fashion, with small details making the period allusions (hairstyles and makeup, hats and gloves, collars and cuffs) on top of the present basic shapes.
There has been a great deal of cant in the past 30 years to the effect that Dior's era forced helpless women into a posture of submission with its fussily constructed garments, cumbersome skirts, cinched waists, and rigid hairstyles, crippling their feet in high heels and imprisoning their hands in white gloves.
Dior arrived on the Paris fashion scene after World War II, just in time to do away with the enforced practicality of women's wartime clothing--usually refurbished old clothes, or military uniform--and to revive Romance.
These shots, from both American and French publications, concentrated on Evita's patronage of Christian Dior, fashion's Man of the Hour in the late 1940s, inventor of the "New Look" and savior of the war-wounded French couture.
Dior's new insistence on elegance for women was an inspired move toward a whole world of pleasure and languor that had been suspended and nearly forgotten.
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