Word: couturieres
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drawstring handbag: a couturier's adaptation of a laundry bag.
couturier: an advertising writer's adaptation of a little manufacturer.
The Treasury Department, looking for new ways to sell war bonds, tried tough talk to sell War Loan VI. Hattie Carnegie, Manhattan couturier, went the Treasury one better. In windows usually devoted to high-priced chichi escapism, Hattie Carnegie tried realism. Her shocker set off protests: one customer complained that...
Sales were disappointing. Prices were high. Dresses ranged from $200 to $900, coats from $500 to $1,000. The prices prohibited purchases for export. Most Parisians were too worried about the unsettled political future to part with such sums. Moaned one famous couturier: "What shall I do with all this...
Another damper was the lack of good fur, real wool. French ingenuity did its best. Rabbits became everything up to ermine and chinchilla. Cats, rats, moles were tinted and tortured into sealskin and beaver. But Parisians faced a cold winter without much coal. Said the Chicago Daily News' correspondent...