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"In actuality, there were plenty of black dresses before that date, including many by Chanel herself, and black was already a fashionable colour but there's something about this moment and the way it embodies the modernising spirit of the 1920s." That moment is how the new show begins the largest fashion exhibition the National Museum of Scotland has ever staged - a simple crepe de chine dress made by Chanel in 1926, borrowed from the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin

Good stretch, fully lined

She used unconventional clothlike jersey, which was unheard of in couture fashionand unconventional cuts, often taking notes from mens clothes

The pairing of black leather lace-up dress sneakerswith beige dress pants with a spread-collar button-down shirt

Straps: Adjustable Spaghetti Straps