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A woman's short, loose, unwaisted dress, originally fashionable in the 1950s.
‘The collection ended on a high note with a sequence of little black sack dresses with gilded metallic trim.’
‘Sack dresses, shift dresses and shirt dresses are hitting the fashion scene in a big way.’
‘Bodies were being reconfigured dramatically, particularly female ones - the corset and chignon were abandoned for the unconstructed sack dress and bobbed hair of the femme nouvelle.’
‘Next seasons's big thing, the sack dress, was also seen in the show.’
‘Fans of the sack dress - and there are a surprising number - cite its elegant origins at Balenciaga in the 1950s.’