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popular, as were high-waist, pleated pants. As for evening wear, tuxedo

tailcoat was the must-have look. But after mirth during 1940s, women

started wearing knee-length dresses. They also began wearing shoulder

pads under their dresses, blouses and jackets, creating a boxy, masculine

appearance. It wasn't uncommon for women to remake men's suits into

women's wear while the men were overseas fighting in World War II.

Cleavage was a no-no, but women's clothing did feature cut-outs and

sweetheart necklines. The apparel of this era was less geared towards

fashion and more towards durability. Men commonly wore suits, sport

coats, trousers, and sweaters during the '40s. The typical outfit consisted

of dress pants and shirts. They also opted for fitted sweaters, sweater

vests, and waistcoats. The clothing was meant to emphasize their figures.

Baby boomers are the demographic cohort following the

Silent Generation and preceding Generation X. The generation is

generally defined as people born from 1946 to 1964, during the post–

World War II. The baby boom has been described variously as a

"shockwave" and as "the pig in the python." Baby boomers are often

parents of late Gen Xers and Millennials.In the 1960s and 1970s, as this

relatively large number of young people entered their teens and young

adulthood—the oldest turned 18 in 1964—they, and those around them,

created a very specific rhetoric around their cohort and the changes

brought about by their size in numbers, such as the counterculture of the

1960s, there was a movement of ‘’Single Girl’’. The idea of a Single Girl