Word: dress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holloway Prison police doctors examined with interest last week Alexandra Maud Edwarda Caernarvon Stuart, a small female with hair falling in ringlets down her back, clad in a child's dress reaching barely to her knees...
...these were thoroughly familiar to the art world and so were four of the five Goyas that were sent to Brooklyn. But the fifth seemed definite news: a Portrait of a Lady, in an elaborate feathered headdress, blue & white striped dress, holding a painted fan, and with a parrot perched beside her. It was a fine example of lusty Goya's most typical manner. The canvas had not been shown in either the Goya centennial exhibition in Spain, or in the great Goya loan show in Manhattan last year (TIME, April 23, 1934). It was not reproduced...
...Dress...
Humbly confessing, at last, that women dress, not for women, but for men, the nation's leading advisers on female apparel have come to more man for his decree. In a final plea for advice the letter closes with a desperate "Please don't let us down, we need your help...
...tried to get up the sort of an act which people would pay to see even in the middle of a depression. It was at that time that I began waving fans about to emulate the wings of a bird. At first I wore a dress, but I soon discovered that it encumbered my movements to such an extent that I had to discard it. Of course I could have danced in my lingerie, but I think that it is indecent to appear on the stage in one's underclothes. Embarassed? No, other people don't embarass...