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Chicago Tribune columnist Everett Mattlin lamented the state of things in a column entitled The Age of Unisex: You know how it is now - the boys hair is as long as the girls and their clothing is similarly shapeless and genderless

According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Christian Dior was the first to name the early evening frock a cocktail dress in the late 1940s, and in doing so allowed magazines, department stores, and rival Parisian and American designers to promote fashion with cocktail-specific terminology. Diors New Look collection, which included dresses and blazer sets with cinched waistlines and voluminous skirts, defined a generation of style more versatile than ever before

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She married again at age 15 to William Baker, but left him too when her vaudeville group were booked into a New York City venue