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While this shape remained popular until at least 1954, in his Fashion Sourcebooks: The 1950s, John Peacock describes how this figure evolved throughout the decade: from the comparatively early days of the New Look, when the square shoulders and masculine details of the 1940s still lingered, through the ultra-feminine and luxurious styles of the mid-1950s clothes with gently softened shoulderlines, tiny corseted waists, roundly padded hips and long, swirling skirts only eleven inches above the ground (7)

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And this contrast the bold versus the demure, the avant garde versus the elegant is reflected in the way the exhibition itself was designed and constructed