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(It turns out many weren’t: “Bridesmaids’ frocks have long suffered from monotony in design, want of taste in selection, and a startling variety in execution,” a frustrated maid wrote in a 1905 Pictorial Review article.) Ready to wear—or, mass-manufactured clothing that was “ready to wear” the same day, at least—became the norm for women by World War I, and by the 1950s, over 90 percent of Americans were buying their clothes “off the rack” according to Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work: A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York by Nancy L

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