navy enlisted dress blue Uniform: Full blue, men, ranks E-1… — PICRYL Length Skirt – A classic Dress Blues Wear and Care

The pattern is predictable

The overall effect was to emphasize a narrow waist, as Valerie Cumming explains in A Visual History of Costume: The Seventeenth Century (1984): The fashions of the late Elizabethan period produced wide shoulders and hips which enhanced a narrow waistline. (Cumming 18) King James I of England wears a similar set of clothes in a ca

The fitted bodice has flattering stitch detailing at the chest to hug in all the right places and kicks out with a little more volume in the skirt

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Matching embroidery flows onto the full and fabulous long tulle a-line skirt that opens in a side slit before draping to the floor and pooling into a small train