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  omen’s fashion has long been dictated by gender roles in society. As women gained political freedom, their clothing style became less limiting.
The number of women’s organizations exploded between the years 1880 and 1930. Women were leaving the protective environments their
fathers, husbands and society built. Organizing into social reform groups, fighting for suffrage, temperance, and the protection of workers, and victims of urban poverty, pro-active women required practical clothing.
The days of forcing unnatural and unhealthy curves with wire hoops, bone bustles and corsets disappeared and were replaced with
natural fitting fashions and political freedom.
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