Word: dresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bohemians: "Avoid what is called the 'ruffianly style of dress' or the slouchy appearance of a half-unbuttoned vest, and suspenderless pantaloons. That sort of affectation is, if possible, more disgusting than the painfully elaborate frippery of the dandy or dude...
...performed with a variety of accents and speech defects. Diane Varsi seems uncertain as the illegitimate girl, a sensitive-type child who reads books and listens to classical music. Hope Lange is adequate as her friend the murderess, and Terry Moore is well-cast in a low-cut dress. Lana Turner reverses her field to play a woman afraid of love, and does so in a professional manner...
Results were in on the annual couture sweepstakes of the New York Dress Institute, and, though the twelve-place list repeated some regulars among the world's most chic, it also cited several newcomers to the derby. Luxuriating in her No. 1 spot for the fifth year in a row was Mrs. William S. Paley, wife of CBS's board chairman, closely trailed by two other perennials, the Duchess of Windsor and supersocial Mrs. Winston Guest. Soon after them came the year's big surprise: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, making her first appearance...
...retail sales. But success attracted thousands of fly-by-nighters who tricked out rabbit, skunk and black Manchurian dog under such misleading names as Arctic seal, Alaska sable and Belgium lynx. As burned buyers learned to fear the fur, the trend to suburban living-with its more casual dress-trimmed the market more. Women also became choosier. Many passed up muskrat, squirrel, and other less expensive furs for good cloth coats-or waited until they could afford mink. By 1953 fur sales were scraping bottom at $250 million...
...major trend is back to fur collars on coats and suits, long out of style. A miss who is so minded can even breakfast in a fur-trimmed housecoat, go out for cocktails in a fur-banded sheath, slip into a fur-topped evening dress, and the last thing at night clean her teeth with a fur-trimmed toothbrush and climb into her fur-trimmed pajamas. Furriers also are busily promoting complete fur costumes. Notable this season: a black Russian broadtail skirt and matching jacket worn by Zsa Zsa Gabor and a broadtail curve-hugging evening dress with a swallowtail...