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Tight Squeeze: 1995

A candid photo of a young woman trying to squeeze her way down the aisle of an airplane with her very large dress! One has to feel for the poor passengers sitting the aisle seats getting face full of all of her skirts and hoops!. This would be a perfectly normal daily experience for most men and women! Most men just except that getting a face full of skirts and hoops is just the price you have to pay for women wearing such gorgeous dresses

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Poofer: 1924

In our world, they were known as flappers, young women who wore very small dresses that would make a loud flapping sound when they danced, thus giving them their name. They were rebels who's shocking fashion choices steered the world towards the place of short skirts and pants it is today. In this world, they had equally important role, but in a very different direction. While the hoop skirt had remained fashionable since its invention in the 1850s, its size had been relatively stable at around 4 feet in diameter for daily wear dresses. That is until the Poofers came around in the 1920s. Unlike in our world these young women found liberation and freedom in wearing significantly larger gowns than that of their parents. This fashion rebellion was born out of of a desire to take up space both figuratively and literally, by wearing dresses wider than they were tall

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Poofy Flight: 1951 December 30, 2024

Here we see a group of women sitting in a small airplane in the early 1950s! Their large skirts taking up almost the entire plane!!! An interesting thing in this photo to point out is the flight attendant in the back with her, by comparison, very small 3 foot wide skirt! Very early flight attendants wore such small dresses just out a sense of practicality. As these planes were only four seats or so across it just wasn't possible to wear a large skirt! Especially since the passengers were all wearing skirts that were half with the entire plane! Now, of course this would change in the coming years as technology got better and we were able to build larger aircraft so by the mid 1950s, most stewardesses, wore uniform skirts nearly as large as the passengers did!

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POOFY Family Christmas: 1955 December 26,

A Wonderfull picture of a family in the 1950s all decked out in Christmas attire. A lovely Santa clause inspired red velvet dress with white fluffy trim and an adorable red gingham dress for her young daughter. A cool thing about this picture is how it shows the the scale of poofy dresses stayed the same regardless of age. The young girls dress is nearly proportionally the same width relative to hight as her mothers!

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A POOFY Time With Friends:

Early 1960s

Here we see a couple of friends dressed for a nice visit with each other in the early 1960s. Their modestly sized colorful pastel dresses were becoming very popular during the early 1960s. we start to see more variation in skirt width drinking this era, from 5ft to some over 8ft!! Though the 6ft range continued to be a popular size.

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Here we see a woman in her kitchen in the early 1970s. Her large dress nearly takes up the whole kitchen! We can see the increase in the diameter of dresses that continued in the early 70s and the new colors and fabric patterns that are representive of the era. This would be the widest daily wear dresses were for a while, with average size fluctuating until the 2000s when they steadily began to increase in size again!

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Poofy flight :1965

Here we see a photo from the 1960s of women sitting on a very crowded plane!!!

In the 1960s most women’s flying dresses were still “ small” enough than that two women could sit in a row with three seats on a plane. The women in the aisle seats skirts would flow out, and fill up most of the aisle on the plane! Imagine the poor flight attendants trying to walk down that aisle, wearing their own 5 foot wide skirts!!! It would be quite the tight squeeze! By the time the plane is fully boarded, you probably wouldn’t be able to see from end to the other!!! It would all just be filled with squished skirts, hoops, and petticoats! And the poor men even on planes where the men sit on one side would still probably not be able to avoid having hoops and petticoats shoved in their faces when a passenger or flight attendant walk down the aisle! Though most men wouldn’t complain as I’m sure they would quite enjoy the show!!! besides getting bumped in the face by a hoop skirt is considered quite good luck!!!

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POOFY Housewife: 1950

A Lovely color photograph of a woman wearing a rather small early post war dress, a lovely dome silhouette. though its small size is unusual for the time. Its high hemline was very popular among woman in the early 1950s While its small size may seam silly to a modern viewer, it is an important step towards the massive dresses of today.

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POOFY Housewife: 1951

A Lovely color photograph of a woman wearing a rather small early post war dress, a lovely dome silhouette. While its small size may seam silly to a modern viewer, it is an important step towards the massive dresses of today.

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POOFY Housewife: 1951

A Lovely photograph of a woman wearing a rather small early post war dress, a lovely dome silhouette. though its small size is unusual for the time. Its high hemline was very popular among woman in the early 1950s While its small size may seam silly to a modern viewer, it is an important step towards the massive dresses of today.

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Ready For A BIG Flight: 1989

Here we see a flight attendant for JAL airlines in the late 80s. The skirt on her uniform is small enough to make it up and down the aisles of the plane but still wide enough to be a dignified shape. Combined with the skirts of the passengers spilling out into the aisles it would be almost impossible for a stewardess to make it down the isles in an equally big dress. Though on modern wide body planes the aisles are wide enough for the flight attendants to wear 6ft+ uniforms!

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A poofy view late 1950s

A fun candid picture that does a great job of showing just how big these dresses were! Indeed in most pictures you can see how wide the skirt is but one often forgets just how far wide all around the skirts really were!!!! and how much they would stick out in front of you! You'd have to squish all those skirts quite a lot in order to reach anything in front of you!!!! and really didn't leave much room to move around those old houses!

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History of the POOFY Car Part 3, a comfy ride:1981

By 1959 The average skirt size was almost 7 feet wide the width of the entire car in the mid 1950s seeing the writing on the wall, many car designers once again increased the width of automobiles now an average of 9 feet wide and with significantly wider doors to allow easier entry for women. This was a huge change and for the first time since the 1930s, a women had more than enough room in the car for their dresses and maybe even a male passenger in the back! This size would stay popular until the 2000s. Though it was still quite difficult to get in and out of a car wearing such gowns most women were at least need one other person's help to get in the car making sure her skirts were fully inside before they close the door. Pushers became a common site at car valleys. Their job was to help push the skirts of women back into their cars. Much like the pusher job here in our world in Japan, where their job is to push people into subways to make sure they all fit.

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The POOFY Car part 2,A tight

Squeeze: 1950s

By the 1950s with dresses averaging around 6ft wide. It was once again becoming a tight squeeze to fit in cars. While the width of the average car would not change during this era, its length and internal design would. Doors would be made wider and there would be extra room under the dashboard to allow women to sit in the front seat as by the 1950s there there were significantly more women drivers and you would needed room for 3+feet of skirts and hoops in front of you to be able to squeeze under the dashboard.

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History of the POOFY Car

Due to the prevalence of hoop skirts continuing fashion during the 19th century, carriages were substantially wider than they were in our world.

As such when they first automobiles started to appear in the early 20th century they were somewhat wider than they were during this era in our own history, though with the advent of the

"poofer" movement with their massive dresses in the 1920s, the width of these cars would soon prove to be quite inadequate. With dresses exceeding 5 feet wide for the first time cars would have to be significantly wider in order to hold more than one woman. By the 1930s cars became an average of 7 feet wide this way they could fit at least one women comfortably or two with their dresses squished against each other in the backseat. Though with the increase in skirt size during the 1950s, this would soon prove once again to be quite inadequate.

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A POOFY Protest: 1926

Here we see a very interesting picture. To a modern observer It may just look like a woman wearing a rather puffy dress sitting next to a very tiny car! however, this is actually what was known during the late 1920s as a protest picture! with the Poofer craze sweeping the country, Many women were very upset that they were unable to fit in their cars wearing such large gowns! to draw home this point many women staged pictures of them trying to sit in their vehicles wearing their massive for the time dresses but not being able to fully fit inside the car!these pictures would be handed out as flyers or sent to the heads of the automotive companies in mass as a form protest, demanding they start manufacturing larger vehicles that would fit their growing gowns!