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Cassells Household Guide , which billed itself as an encyclopedia of domestic and social economy, summed up the problem like this, circa 1880: As a general rule, ladies do not like to see their maids dressed in the clothes they themselves have wornthe difference in the social scale of mistress and maid renders this unpleasing. But Cassells made one exception: a black or a dark-colored silk. Previously, a simple black dress meant a wealthy woman was dressing down. But by the 19th century, the black dress had become a staple of the lower and middle classes
Other than working, the piece concluded, "her next preference is for doing nothing." Chanel's inspiration for her little black dress came from an unfortunate childhood You've undoubtedly seen pictures of Princess Diana shining in a little black dress or as the media calls it her "revenge dress" at a 1994 Vanity Fair party on the same evening that her ex-husband, Prince Charles, admitted to cheating on public TV (via FQ )
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