The New Dress | Compare and Contrast
1920s: Most items of womens’ apparel are homemade or custom-made. Apart from basics such as stockings, underclothing, and nightgowns, most women have dresses made for them during once-yearly or seasonal sessions with dressmakers.
1990s: Most clothing is bought off-the-rack. Only a fractional percentage of the world’s population regularly buys couture, or custom-made clothing.
1920s: Very little is known about different kinds of mental illness, despite widespread familiarity with the theories of pioneering psychoanalyist Sigmund Freud. Woolf’s...
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