Word: dress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said the Chicago Daily Tribune: '' A leading Paris couturier, whose clientele is chiefly American and English, has been forced to place signs in his fitting rooms that hereafter all customers must wear underwear. His dress measurers and saleswomen complained that many society women are dispensing with all undergarments following the latest style edict, which insists on supple, smooth lines...
...reported that the President had begun preparation of his ad- dress to Congress, to be delivered on Dec. 3. The conjecture is that his chief topics will be the farm situation, tax relief and the railway problem...
...Senor Blanco make out a strong case against the commonplace stereotypes of modern romances. If some patriot American critic would only file a protest against the poor-but-honest serving girl and the white-haired general of industry who invariably appears in the middle of the morning in full dress, the indictment would be complete...
...doubt as to what he its be terms himself a dramatic realist. His works show the effects of his reading of Plato, for be desires that every one be made an aristocrat. He maintains that education has little to do with the matter of acquiring table manners, except dress, and that outward show which aristocracy presents. Every one should acquire these attributes according...
...Hearst wore a black satin dress trimmed with ermine...