Art Deco objects in detail
Geometry and Abstraction
Jeanne Lanvin: evening gown.
   
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Bias cut technique
At the end of the 1920s, Vionnet's technique of cutting dresses across the grain of the fabric had been adopted by most couturiers, it would become the trademark of 1930s fashion.
Bias cut offered very innovative possibilities. Dresses fitted better and fell around the body in figure hugging way. When cut across the grain, fabrics appeared softer, thinner and could be slightly stretched.
Bias cut was the ideal technique to mould the feminine contours without hindering the body, a feature extremely important to women who had known the comfortable flat and square dresses of the previous decade.
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