Word: housedress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dress is supposed to reflect a "sophisticated plicity." It is designed for the hand-screened cotton fabric from which it is made. (Ordinarily, a fabric is designed for a particular dress.) Marimekkos are sexy by implication rather than by cut. They belong in the never-never land between the housedress and the beach shift--or at least they did last season...