It was a very nice little dress; but Ivanka had the figure for it. The best dress in the world won’t look good on a woman unless it’s suited to her body; and if she’s not got a nicely proportioned figure, she needs to create one somehow.
Back in the 1950s, my father had a friend who made undergarments for women in Washington, D.C. Back then there were lots of places like that, where you could go to be fitted for custom-made ‘foundation’ garments, bras, etc., that would suit you perfectly and improve the figure.
Now it’s just mass-made things like ‘Spanx’, and bras that never really fit the individual. I guess there are still some places that do custom work, but it’s probably beyond the affordability of the middle-class of women who visited my Dad’s friend, back in the day...
-JT
But nowadays, the “well off” women can get all kinds of body sculpting procedures (surgical), so they don’t have such a need for the customized undergarments.