Word: chichi
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...Less Chichi. Nonetheless, most of the chichi left in shoes is in ersatz materials-a red fabric rose or composition cherries at the toe of a plain leather pump, multicolored raffia beach sandals, bright wooden clogs, etc. The only frivolous style note in 1944 women's shoes is the high ankle strap (see cut, p. 82). The real style is the "classic" day shoe that can go anywhere and keep going...
...defunct Vanity Fair and who is now a C. N. "editorial adviser." But Vogue is chiefly run by women, most of whom keep their hats on daylong as they work, thus give the appearance of being ready to take flight at any moment for some chichi affair...
...showing evidences an hysterical attempt to provide the spectator with a different shock than that of the preceding exhibit." Of a Max Ernst show in 1941 he remarks: "Here, just the right amount of peep-show pornography ... to provide final fashionable acceptance to an audience thrilled by its chichi eroticism...
Labyrinth opened the ninth U.S. season of Russian ballet. Chichi as ever was its first-night audience, implemented by the rich, well-furred, well-elbowed European refugees who are increasingly noticeable in Manhattan smart-spots. Beaming as ever was the impresario of the ballet, smart Showman S. (for Solomon) Hurok...
...difference between hot jazz and commercial swing; they dismiss the important German and Russian films of the '20s as a high-brow rage. D. H. Lawrence and Aldous Huxley are disposed of as writers who did too much reading; T. S. Eliot as an author of ultra-chichi -vers-de-société; W. H. Auden as a slick eclectic who "perhaps never wrote an original line." If there were an award for that book which does the least to bootlick or otherwise seduce the reader and to cheapen its own contents, The Long Week End would...