New Look
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- noun
- Archaic
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Nuevo Look
- The popularity of the little black dress continued with Dior's "New Look"; a silhouette characterized by a small, nipped-in waist and full skirt reaching below mid-calf length.
- Dior's New Look
Examples
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She chose a dress that perfectly embodies the New Look style with its fitted bodice and full skirt.
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Christian Dior's 1947 "New Look"
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The New Look
Academic text (1994) -
So I'm going to try to pull off one of my favorite silhouettes in fashion history, which is the new look from Christian Dior.
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Betty also told me that when Dior's New Look arrived on the fashion scene, women were quite opposed to it! "We all said, 'I would never wear that strange new style!'
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The fashion show featured models showcasing the iconic New Look designs from the 1940s.
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Christian Dior's New Look revolutionized women's fashion by emphasizing a nipped waist and voluminous skirts.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound combines 'new' (recent) and 'look' (appearance/style), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it refers to a new style or appearance. Although it is a named historical fashion movement (Dior's 1947 collection), that specific referent does not prevent the overall meaning being directly derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
New Look comes from Christian Dior's 1947 clothes that had a tight bodice, a narrow waist and a very full skirt. One popular story says an excited magazine editor said 'it's such a new look' when she saw the new shape, and that's why New Look now means that dramatic style of women's clothes after the war.