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The Army Green Uniform also served double duty as a Dress Uniform by wearing the Army Green Skirt, white shirt with black neck tab, and black service pumps

Women cross-dressers could be self-divided, brooding, Byronic figures but for women the inversion of cross-dressing is not always or even primarily erotic. But, noting the appeal of Sarah Bernhardt and Marlene Dietrich, clearly such seductive cross-dressers can function as sex symbols for men, reflecting masculine attitudes that range from an attempt to eroticize (and thereby posses) the independent woman to only slightly submerged homosexual fantasies. Female Modernists tended to be more extreme both in actually playing the male role and their reaction against such camouflaging as male pseudonyms

The lavender gown evoked old-Hollywood glamour, paired with a 20-carat pear-shaped diamond necklace

Next I had to determine how much to change the underbust and back pieces to account for the shirring