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Word: dior (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fitting sobriquet for TIME [March 4]-honored Christian Dior is, of course, "The Pied Piper of Hemlines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 25, 1957 | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

After reading of Dior's hysterical high fashions in your March 4 issue, one cannot but think there is something calm and sane about a fig leaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 18, 1957 | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...Dior and his scissors bear a striking resemblance to Hitchcock and one of his thrillers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 18, 1957 | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...This year the word on Dior is: 'The line is free, free as the Paris air . . . free from making a choice between wide and narrow . . . free to wear or not to wear . . .' " This "line" is certainly going to play hell with the falsie business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 18, 1957 | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...ready-made and the copyist, private luxuries are now public domain. Because of the curious liaison Dior has wrought between the shrewd operators of Seventh Avenue and the damask-hung salons off the Champs Elyseées, U.S. women may deplore or applaud the plump little man from Normandy, but they cannot ignore him. The woman has not yet been born who, shopping for a new dress, asks for "something just like what I have on"-and men would not like it if she did. Few women have the social assurance to trust their own taste completely. Dior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Dictator by Demand | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

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