Word: dress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexico's active volcanoes was in eruption again: 61-year-old Diego Rivera. Mexican women, he rumbled in public and private, dress too much like U.S. women. Not that Artist Rivera had anything against American womanhood...
Cried Rivera: "The classic Mexican dress [flowing skirt, blouse and shawl-like rebozo]has been created by people for people. The Mexican women who do not wear it do not belong to the people, but are mentally and emotionally dependent on a foreign class to which they wish to belong, i.e., the great American and French bureaucracy." His wife and fellow artist, Frida Kahlo, said he, has worn nothing but Mexican clothes for 22 years, and when she went to Paris in 1939, Madame Elsa Schiaparelli was so impressed that she designed a "robe Madame Rivera...
...strange assembly that the eight representatives of the great powers (two from each nation) look down upon. The women match the men in the shabbiness of their dress; there isn't a firm trouser crease or an even hemline. There is only a hushed attentiveness, as their eyes move studyingly from the speaker to the faces of their conquerors of three years ago. Occasionally, there sounds the discreet rustle of wax paper as a representative of the people unwraps his brown bread sandwich, neatly folds the paper and tucks it back in his pocket for future use. The linoleum...
...Ronne, brought up in the mountains of Norway, first went to the Antarctic with Rear Admiral Byrd in 1933. When he goes back in a year or two ("There is a lure . . ."), Mrs. Ronne will not be with him. Says she: "Why, I didn't wear a dress the whole time I was there. The next time, I stay home...
Mansfield Lonie, of the National Bureau of Standards, is involved in commercial anthropometry. His job, he said, is to set up scientific size standards for the clothing industry. So far, he has had poor cooperation. Clothiers, particularly women's dress manufacturers, refuse to face anthropometric facts. They persist in designing garments on "model forms" which have little resemblance to real female bodies. They assume that women will change their shapes with the shifting moods of fashion. It makes life pretty difficult, Mr. Lonie hinted, for a serious anthropometrist...