Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from which it had marched after World War I. It was a counterrevolution as drastic as a full-scale revival of the 1914 Pierce-Arrow, the buttonhook and the mustache cup. The summer's furore over longer hemlines was nothing but a skirmish. Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, imperious oracles of the dressmakers, sounded the call. Unabashed, they now cried that what was black had become white, that there was no figure but the hourglass figure and that salvation lay in what Harper's called the new "Mold of Fashion...
...last-year girl," explained Harper's Bazaar. "You can let the clock stop, of course, if you want to ally yourself with women who hold off until a new fashion is on everyone else's back. . . . Put your hands around your waist, just above your hips. This is your waistline. The line goes up, rounded and small, to a defined and shapely bosom." Harper's, having first proclaimed in a kind of hypnotist's monotone that "already you are noticing [that] heavy, bulky shoulder pads are annoying you," now went unconcernedly...
These, who might have come straight from the vicar's garden party or a charity bazaar, wore the rapt expression of idolaters as their hero spoke. Behind them and around them stood the thousands of the crowd-the voting public. They wore the garb and they had the faces of the working class; they came from the motorcar factories of Cowley, near Oxford, from the shops of Banbury, from the farms of Oxfordshire...
...pictures from the Paris and New York openings into print for their big fall numbers. Queenly Edna Woolman Chase, 70-year-old editor-in-chief of Vogue, bustled home from a quick inspection of her revived British and French editions. Pert Carmel Snow, 56, editor of Harper's Bazaar, was doing front-line duty in Paris. Both were ecstatic about derrieres, guepieres (little waist corsets), and a French designer of "magnificent courage" named Christian Dior (the man who, abetted by some Americans, first dared to lower skirts after the death of L-85, the Wartime material-hoarding order...
...kind of distraction in which merry-eyed Carmel Snow and her Harper's Bazaar delight. Dublin-born Mrs. Snow was editor of the American Vogue when Richard Berlin, boss of Hearst magazines, lured her away in 1932. (Today Harper's, like Town & Country, gets only the gentlest Hearstian supervision.) She and her fiction editors have bought and plugged such bylines as Virginia Woolf, Jean Stafford, Eudora Welty, Christopher Isherwood, Anna Kavan and Colette...