The one on the left looks like a rubber sheath. Something chic to wear when you're butchering dinner!

Women weren't planning on doing a lot of running during the day, I'm guessing.

Easy-on coat-style dresses meant you didn't have to muss your hair putting one of these contraptions over your head. The dresses went on in a "jiffy." (Nice to see that word has a long history.) Short hair, long dresses, tons of shoulder-bunting - imagine everyone dressed like this. In color.

Not the men, of course.