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When constructing the dress, the bodice and skirt are joined together by combining the skirt darts into one dart: this aligns the skirt darts with the bodice waist dart. Wikipedia Shift Dress According to Jen at Paisley and Sparrow a shift dress has a loose fit and falls on the body without any support

I have no event to wear it to. Well that all changed one day while I was writing a post on the history of 1920s house dresses (part of the free 1920s Style Guide series I have going on now on my blog.) I ran across an image of a 1922 house dress from my Nationals catalog (shown above)

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In the end, she wore a sample dress purchased elsewhere