By the 1940s, V-necks had become fashionable, the suits only extended to the top of the thigh, and new elastic materials hugged the body, as in this advertisement for Jantzen suits.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
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1/2-036937; F
Photograph by Gordon Burt
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