Word: brassi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tuxedo & Brassières. The bookkeeper for a Chicago tailoring firm said that Stratton once paid $1,400 in cash for four suits and a tuxedo; the defense pointed out that Stratton was preparing for his inauguration. Clerks from several women's stores testified that Mrs. Stratton and Stratton's two grown daughters made cash purchases totaling thousands of dollars, mostly for dresses, shoes and undergarments. When a defense attorney objected that "there is not a scintilla of evidence as to their use," Judge Will said gently: "Do you mean you don't know what a brassi...
...Brassières like Maidenform's nylon net ($4) and Vanity Fair's stretch band ($4) are every bit as rudimentary as Rudi's: they may get by splayed out on a department-store counter, but displayed-even on 100% synthetic mannequins-in show windows, they are likely to stop traffic, start riots, and end up as exhibits in night court. Even those with a bit more substance to them, like Bien Jolie's flowered-net version ($11) and Warner's "The Body" ($12.50), are sheer enough to read through, small print included...
...other side of the highballs. No holds barred. Anything I miss hasn't been invented yet." But then the great klaxon voice takes over. It sounds 26, or whatever the most magic laryngeal age is, and she hardly needs the frightened little mike she conceals in her brassière. Those big metallic syllables, perfectly enunciated, come forth like bullets and mow down the crowd. "I must admit," she says, "I don't exactly croon a tune...
...street to Macy's third floor. The big companies are forcing the whole industry in their direction. They have already moved into double-knit garments and to new laminated materials; the latest shift is to the new stretch fabrics that started with ski pants, expanded into brassières and girdles, and will eventually pop up in almost everything women wear. "It used to be," says Russ Togs President Eli Rousso, "that a salesman's personality was what counted most in selling. But no more. Nowadays, this is an industry of facts and figures...
...growing example of the trend is Prisunic (One-Price), the Continent's largest retail chain and a sort of bouillabaisse of the U.S. five-and-dime store, the discount house and the supermarket. In Prisunic's 304 stores, shoppers avidly fill their carts with blue jeans and brassières, meat and mushrooms, toys and tools-while canned music wafts across crowded aisles, pretty girls demonstrate how to cook frozen foods, and cash registers tinkle at busy check-out counters...