Word: dress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years after her husband's death, Sarah Althea Terry one day walked out on San Francisco's streets in a ballroom dress at high noon, eyes blank, lips babbling as they continued to babble until pneumonia stopped them forever last week...
Though he has as yet no Paris salon, Designer Rudolf Lanz of Salzburg has had such an important effect on the design of sports clothes that even the most important Paris houses are experimenting this spring with adaptations of the traditional Lanz Dirndl (tight-bodiced peasant dress) for street wear...
...holy presence of the Caliph her father. Now back in Hyderabad, she has devoted herself to Indian female uplift movements and this week the Crown Princess marshaled the Hyderabad Girl Guides in the Jubilee Durbar. Unlike their husbands, who follow their father's example in dress, the Caliph's girls dress as Indian ladies do (see cut above...
From the wheezing pugs and spotted Dalmatians of the 1880s through the French poodles of the Century's turn and the post-War German shepherds, fashions in dogs have fluctuated almost as frequently and inexplicably as fashions in dress. Katharine Cornell's co-starring Flush in The Barretts of Wimpole Street may have had something to do with the cocker spaniel's recent spectacular rise in the U. S. A more likely explanation, considering its simultaneous rise in Britain, is growing appreciation of the flop-eared little dog's all-around qualities...
...dress should not be cut lower in front or in back than one or two inches below the little hollow of the throat...