Word: dress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life and movement that he is most interested in. That is why he drew so constantly the dancers of the Paris Opera. The one painting of a "Ballet Dancer" on display illustrates his characteristic treatment of this subject. The figure, which is light and graceful, wears a light blue dress with spots here and there of sheer color. It is ironic indeed that he envelopes the whole in a romantic, pure atmosphere, for the truth was the dancers as a whole lived a very immoral life and were often almost vicious in their vices. Another typical Degas painting...
...like Congress gaiters and cotton suits whose intrinsic shapelessness is a true reflection of the style of nightshirt in which they have to sleep. For women it consists of coarse cotton mother hubbards, black cotton stockings, shoes like the men's, floppy sunbonnets. To both sexes the official dress gives an air of covered wagon days, and to the city's present 3,175 old paupers, who daily look across from their island homes to the skyscrapers of Manhattan, it is a sore trial...
...Sawyer but contributed to the catalogue an article, Anecdotes of Maurice Prendergast, that shone gemlike from its pages. Its simplicity was fitting because Maurice Prendergast was a simple man. While working in a Boston dry goods store as a boy, he made his first sketches of women's dresses that stood about the shop. "Nothing amused his eyes," says Van Wyck Brooks, "more than a pretty dress, blue, green, yellow or old rose, as one saw in all his pictures to the end of his life, the beach parties and fairytale picnics with their charming wind-blown figures...
...that the Bund, on the surface a minuscule singing, beer-bibbing and marching society, was in reality a hateful Nazi network with some 500,000 U.S. sympathizers. Last week Chairman Dies made a timely move by recalling Witness Metcalfe to repeat and amplify his previous testimony, having him dress in his Bund uniform for photographers...
...London, publicity-wise Dress Designer Elsa Schiaparelli opened her fall show. Excerpts from the catalogue (called "Trajectory"): "Coats & jackets foretell the future, their insides stuffed with baby feathers. . . . Hats made of fur or fluff come within the realm of logic. . . . Colors take on the nature of dreams but gold sheds its earthly influence on all we wear...