Word: cummerbunds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poitrine was never so emphasized as in the new décolletage, and le derrière is still with us. For the girls who are enceinte, that "sack" will be O.K., and the rest of us will just cinch in the side seams and add a swishy cummerbund. Voila...
...press photographers' dinner on June 9, less than two hours before he woke up with a world-shaking "bellyache" (TIME, June 18). His hosts last week: The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, celebrating with formal dress and caviar its 75th anniversary. Sharp in a tartan cummerbund presented him by the Black Watch, famed British Highland regiment, the guest of honor disposed of steak, enjoyed the Hollywood-flavored floor show, then delivered a low-keyed address saluting American trade unionists as "the living proof that Marx was wrong...
...special feature of the fashionable gathering will be the presentation of the First Annual Cummerbund Cup, to the "most nattily attired outfielder." Presenting the beautiful piece will be Cummer von Bund, head of the German-American Cummer Bund. A check with Mr. Bund's office late last night revealed that he had not yet fixed upon his very correct costume for the occasion, but it was indicated that he will be "so lovely you could...