Word: bra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like suits will dominate the 1957 lines. As the first fall showings got under way in New York last week, it was plain that bathing-suit manufacturers had taken their style cues largely from Broadway: a trend to the My Fair Lady look, with Empire bosoms, the half-shell bra, wide shoulder straps, Gay-Nineties stripes, and knee-length pants that can be rolled up for swimming...
Apropos of the Democrats and their advertising agency, which "made the Maidenform bra a symbol of the American Dream": the theme was used four years ago during the national nominating conventions...
...smiled at each other across a table in Manhattan's "21." At national committee headquarters, staff members were calmly looking beyond the convention, planning to conduct the fall campaign with the help of Madison Avenue's Norman, Craig & Kummel, Inc., the advertising agency that made the Maidenform bra a symbol of the American Dream. Even in South Carolina, where the civil-rights issue is seething, Democratic delegates caucused, tut-tutted talk of a third party, voted to seek their objectives "within the framework" of the Democratic Party...
Hollywood snickered. "Act?" sneered one of Marilyn's directors. "That blonde can't act her way out of a Whirlpool bra." Cocktail parties were convulsed with the news that Marilyn was holed up in Manhattan with the entire Modern Library, and had sworn she would not unlock the door until she was cultured. The rumors began to get wilder. Marilyn had been admitted to the Actors Studio, and was studying the deep-dish Stanislavsky Method. She wanted to play Grushenka in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov...
...labeled the Mannerist-style painting of Gabrielle d'Estrées [Oct. 3] "Lady After Her Bath." Surely a more appropriate title would have been: "I dreamed I was in a jewelry store without my Maidenform bra...