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Style icons wearing the 1940s Peasant Dress (Top image) Teresa Wright looks absolutely adorable in her peasant style dress as she plays a teenager in the 1943 Hitchcock Thriller Shadow of a Doubt

Introduction Step back into the early mornings of the American frontier, where the air was crisp, the coffee was strong, and women moved gracefully through kitchens, gardens, and wide-open fields in their colourful calico dresses and trusty bonnets

Remember, you can opt for this pair to appear dressy but not subtle

Add the dressing and cover with foil

Flat shoes can work if they are genuinely elegant, a flat sandal in metallic leather or an embellished ballet flat, but they need to carry the same formality as everything else