Word: denim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Couturier Jacques Fath, in Dallas to accept a fashion prize from the Neiman-Marcus store, got all dressed up in native costume (Western-style plaid shirt by Jacques Fath, glass-studded white leather belt by Neiman-Marcus, blue denim britches by Sears, Roebuck). Concluding that the U.S. square dance is "wonderful, wonderful," he announced that Paris would hear of the sport just as soon as he got home...
...with her husband in his Austin sedan. (They had a date to dine with Philip's cousin, Lady Brabourne, and practical Elizabeth saw no reason for breaking it.) By Sunday night 4,000 or more people in slouch hats, toppers, evening clothes, shawls and workmen's denim were clustered about the huge Victoria Memorial...
...view could catch. Snaking through the scrub, guerrilla riflemen made short, sharp little raids against government outposts. In & out of the piny mountain country on Nicaragua's northern flank, armed, machete-toting men filtered mysteriously. In Guatemala and Costa Rica dusty little companies, in faded denim and khaki, marked time in the tropic heat...
...Buenos Aires' broad, stately Avenida Alvear last week, municipal workers in faded blue denim wearily hammered together a new temporary grandstand. "What is this for?" asked a reporter. "The July 9 Independence celebration? The arrival of Chile's President?" "Quién sabe?" answered a carpenter. "Perhaps for that. Perhaps for the return of the Sñora from her voyage. Ah, sñor, you have read of this voyage? A miracle, is it not so? Surely, all the world must know...
...comes out in the wash. One can learn a great deal about people by a casual look at the weekly laundry. If the man of the house is a laborer or railroad man, there's usually a pair or two of denim overalls and a matching jumper. If there are children in the family there is evidence of them on the clothesline. I understand that in New England old-fashioned longies appear on the lines later in the season. But it is feminine things hanging in the back yards which reveal sadly,--no dispassionately,--what has happened to our once...