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By the 1920s, such societal sartorial standards had fallen by the wayside, aided by the progressive movement as well as by WWI: Mourning was abandoned by many people at the time, out of consideration of others, since a universal wearing of black would have been unthinkably depressing to the public, read an article in a 1927 issue of Vogue titled The New Aspect of Mourning. Women in America and England acquired a new viewpoint on this subject

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