My 1920s dress: When looking at dresses from the 1920s I found it qiute difficult to find dresses that fit, when I saw this dress I fell in love with it and prayed that it would. I was told by the man who owns the vintage clothing store where I found the dress that it was probably intened for an older woman. Professor Maginnis also told us that often the smaller garments are the ones preserved because they have been worn less. Whereas a larger garment, which can be worn at different stages of a person's body-size fluctuation, may have been worn many more years.