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Justine Picardie is a contributing editor at Harpers Bazaar UK and author of Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture ( Farrar, Straus and Giroux ), from which this is excerpted.

Dresses are likely to remain a novelty for many men, a defiant show of bravery and individuality akin to the female pioneers of the rational and aesthetic dress movements of the 19th and 20th centuries

Spinners and weavers from around the valley, even the remotest villages, come together to make one Pashmina scarf, which at times takes a few years to complete

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Shift, Sheath, Skimmer, Tent Dresses The other 50s to 60s dress carry over was the contoured sheath dress, called a pencil or wiggle dress today

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