Tunic, ca. 1920, French, cotton, Denise Poiret's modernity was conveyed not only by her sometimes audacious self-presentation but also by her lithe, small-boned figure. Unlike the odalisques of the Belle Époque, her svelte gamine beauty conformed to a more active body type (one that did not require the assist of a corset), which was increasingly in evidence in the early twentieth century
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