Women wore more dresses, fewer separates like skirts and blouses, and no pants, trousers or whatever one wished to call those things that men — not women — wore. These dresses are advertised at $3.95. For perspective, remember it was the Depression. This ad ran in the Arizona Daily Star March 4, 1936.

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