Word: brassi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having spent 20 years uv my life bein' razed up in the tuff atmosfere uv Clay Caounty's Brazil (pronounced bra as in brassière, z as in zebra, il as in ill), I think I can say TIME erred. The atmosfere ain't tuff, and the peepul ain't either...
...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...
While introducing dresses and other garments to her line, Carolyn Schnurer applied what she had learned in making bathing suits. Says she: "We got used to working with the body that way, and so we make our garments the way girdle-and brassière-makers do. They fit so well it's not necessary to wear a brassiere." As for the bathing suits themselves, Designer Schnurer helped force "women to stop wearing those great big dressmaker-skirt bathing suits" and don one-piece suits...
...Karlsruhe, Germany, the Triumph brassière firm invoked a law against plagiarizing works of art to sue a competitor for copying its patterns, lost its case when the judge ruled that "that which goes into a brassière is a work of art, but not the brassière itself...
...himself, Meurant obligingly told the police, was in reality Soviet Operative B 17. The Mongol, he went on, had hidden in the trunk compartment of his car, stripped the countess to find some secret papers she was carrying, and strangled her, all before Meurant could interfere. "Brassières and panties," Meurant told an Amiens court informatively, "are excellent for hiding microfilm." After searching high & low for the Mongol, French justice finally condemned Léon Meurant to death...