Ensemble

Italian

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An early eighteenth-century waistcoat was little more than a tube and did not shape the waist other than to generate a basic cylinder for the torso. The 1950s-60s man's sack suit is a more recent example of such waist obliteration.

Ensemble, silk, Italian

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