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A page from an early 1900s Sears catalogue showing ladies' tailor made suits. There are blurbs and prices for the ones portrayed in a bit hard to read paragraph, but one of the ensembles has been indicated with a big orange rectangle, and in it is a nice lady in a vaguely ominous illustration with a weirdly janky face ruined by automatic scanning software... But she's wearing a fitted jacket and an instep length walking skirt. The skirt is almost a perfect trumpet or funnel shape, much wider at the bottom and flaring out, and sort of figure hugging at the top. It has three rows of decorative stitching at the bottom. The ones next to it are the same general shape, but with a lot more faff and much more length at the hem. All the ladies are sort of ominously staring at the camera that took the photos the dresses were scribbled on top of. It's vaguely unsettling, but the ensembles are very much looks, with neat geometric lines of ribbon, tape or soutache details.