Yes the silhouette became a lot more streamlined and the skirt shorter around WW! as women needed to work and fabrics were less available. I'd say by 1912 the length had started to creep up but after 1914 and especially by 1918 the look was way more modern compared to even just a few years before that. I think the dress combined with the cropped hair puts this after 1917.
Susan (Farrell) Wittman of 423 Dearnley St, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania United States was born in 1902. She was married to Fred H Wittman on June 24, 1922 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, and had a child Joan (Wittman) Michniewicz. Susan Wittman died at age 69 years old on October 23, 1972 at Manayunk in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, and was buried at Saint Mary of the Assumption Roman Catholic Cemetery Lemonte Street, in Roxborough.
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