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Reasons for the upsurge in neckwear are twofold : 1) to retrim last year's dresses, and to trick up this year's limited wardrobe, 2) to allure and astonish men, who are anciently susceptible to a frill at the throat. To make one costume seem like many, women are buying in vast quantities dickies, jabots, fichus, gilets, ruches, berthas, bibs, piccadillies, collets, modesties and ruffs...
...Turkish press, long held in check, assumed a sudden truculence. "If we are forced to choose between fighting like lions or being driven like sheep ... we shall not hesitate to give an example of virile courage that will astonish the world," wrote the Government organ Ulus. "The boasted equality . . . means nothing but equality in slavery under Germany and Italy," scoffed Yeni Sabah...
...youngster, a Yugoslav of Hungarian parentage, named Robert Virovai, soon had all Budapest talking. Last year, just before he died, crotchety 78-year-old Hubay, who in his time had heard his share of fiddling, shook his head feelingly and said, "Young Virovai plays so beautifully as to astonish even...
...hands at the Paris openings remarked a chastening of the fantastic extremes which make newspaper copy and which nobody ever wears. Most couturiers offered clothes that were flattering but wearable. Declaring that she aimed "to clothe rather than astonish," Designer Gabrielle Chanel stole a march on her fellow big shots by opening a full weekend ahead of them, capitalizing on her noted simplicity. Near the centre line of fashion were oldtimer Chanel's wool frocks with ruffles at wrist and neck, forward or "profiled" berets, dark velvet afternoon and dinner dresses, strapless evening gowns...
...influence of opium are monstrous and unforgettable. Critics have found Cocteau difficult to classify. His Oedipus says, "Classifiable things reek of death. You must strike out in other spheres . . . quit the ranks. That's the sign of masterpieces and heroes. An original, that's the person to astonish and to rule...