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How Olivia Rodrigo’s Baby-Doll Dress Reflects Attitudes Toward Women’s Fashion

The baby-doll dress was a source of moral panic long before Olivia Rodrigo’s latest outfit—and the garment is “just one case study for the way that fashion has traveled between kid and adult closets throughout the centuries,” Valerie Trapp says.
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