Word: bosomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last week Christian Dior was talking up his newest alphabetical sensation-the Y-line-and hoped it would do better than last year's H-line, which deflated the bosom and was in turn a bust at the box office. Proclaimed Dior: "I have emphasized the bosom. My shoulders are full and rounded, the real shoulders of a happy woman. I am enchanted that a movement in favor of big hats is under way. They bring back dignity to the little faces coiffed in mad-dog style." This was Paris in the dog days...
...Only last week I was asked to see a girl of ten, scarcely into adolescence, who was wearing miniature falsies and was already the subject of a bosom inferiority complex ... As physicians we must under no circumstances disregard the psychic-I might even say the psychotic-influence of such matters upon our youngsters. It can be exceedingly serious. Recently in my own practice I had one attempted suicide and several rather serious and total derangements contingent upon real or fancied breast irregularities...
...abiding place in the Bosom of Abraham, or in Nirvana, or in the Paradise of Allah or among the Blessed Company of the Saints, what can he do but hate...
...ancient Greeks knew what they wanted in the shape of a woman, and showed it by their statues. The marble goddesses of Greece almost invariably measured the same across the bosom as between breast and navel. Later came the Dark Ages, when men cried for breasts higher and smaller. Germany's Lucas Cranach (1472-1553) painted nudes that conformed strictly to the taste of his time...
...Paris last week, the very latest word in fashion was that Christian Dior had gone gothic, and brought out a brassière-girdle-corset to shift bosoms about to conform to the new, flatter look. Said a Dior artisan of the bustline: "The main idea is to bring the bosom-which used to center some 25 to 26 centimeters (9.8 to 10.2 inches) from the shoulder-up to 19 or 20 centimeters (7.4 to 8.2)." Although U.S. designers dutifully listened, some claimed that his new look was old stuff to them. Said the New York Dress Institute...