A huge sea change in the way people think separates us from the clothes Miss Dora Benley would have worn in 1915. One hundred years ago women were concerned with being as different from men as possible as you can see from the photo on www.edwardwarethrillers.org. They accentuated their curves and emphasized their rounded shoulders. They draped cloth around themselves to evoke the temptress and the woman worth marrying. Nowadays clothes are much more unisex. The sea change? World War 1 and the Industrial Revolution.