Word: dresse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spinach-and I say to hell with it." To designers, spinach is not only a humble green but a trade word for any superfluous decoration. From these two sources came the fitting title of a book published this week by Manhattan's No. 1 dress designer, petite, smart, feline Elizabeth Hawes.* To Designer Hawes, "fashion" is superfluous decoration. In the process of telling how she shrugged it off she gives the dress trade a sane and entertaining dressing down...
...against or figured out in business. This was considerable. First U. S. designer to challenge Paris successfully, first to show U. S.-designed clothes in Paris, first foreign designer invited to show her stuff in the Soviet Union, Elizabeth Hawes believes in "style," a quality in a dress which enables its purchaser to wear it happily for three years. Style changes about every seventh year. On the other hand, the fashion world is a dizzy merry-go-round of superficial changes which enable mass manufacturers to sell cheap, ill-fitting, flimsy garments by the million...
...Rodin's excitement when they were alone in his studio, "I reminded her," he says, "of J. Dominique Ingres' frenzy in the presence of Comtesse d'Haussonville." It appears that when Ingres was painting the Comtesse he found it necessary to rearrange the folds of her dress, asked permission to touch her and, when it was granted, fell weeping at her feet. "Mr. Sargent is less lascivious," said Mary...
Germans particularly criticized the seedy air and ill-fitting clothes of Professor Dodd. They highly approved the arrival of Ambassador Wilson in faultless full dress, white tie and the black waistcoat correct in Europe on such occasions. Der Führer, although he addresses the Reichstag and makes nearly all his public appearances in the khaki of a simple Storm Trooper, received Ambassador Wilson dressed exactly like...
...shearing; observations on the sexual prowess of rams with gossip about his neighbors; market conditions with a description of bathing with his wife in washtubs ("one felt it as something out of Daumier or Cruikshank, of Degas or Rembrandt"); dissertations on the weather with proposed reforms for farmers' dress (kilts and beard...