Word: backless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, attired in a slithering backless blue satin evening gown, she sent the royal hosts and guests swinging with hot choruses of the latest U. S. numbers. Said the ''Bronx Bombshell" after her performance: "I was busy as a bee the whole evening looking at all the famous faces. This is an evening that I will remember all my life...
...haute couture are not intended to please everyone, Paris' great department store Le Louvre is handy at the Exposition, selling French dresses of good ready-to-wear quality and style at moderate prices. Example: at 2,200 francs ($80) Le Louvre last week offered a striking white Cellophane backless evening dress, the front bodice and hips covered with white sequins applied like fishscales and trailing off into a fishtail train...
...scarlet evening gown, high-necked in front, sleeveless and backless was completed by the Paris House of Worth last week to the exact measurements of Mrs. Simpson, rushed to Madame Tussaud's waxworks, London. There dextrous British Mr. John Theodore Tussaud, great-grandson of the original French Madame, was personally finishing up a wax head of Mrs. Simpson while four trusty Tussaud modelers made the rest...
France. Temperatures rose to 104° in Paris, 122° at St. Etienne. Paris meteorologists reported dust from the Sahara in the air. Mannequins from the dress houses strolled along the Champs Elysees in backless dresses. Victim of sunstroke: Etienne Clementel, author, senator, one-time Minister of Colonies...