Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smuts is what ladies call "a very good and exceedingly plain woman." When the General was Prime Minister (1919-1924), she was not to be dissuaded from appearing at the most glittering State banquets in homely carpet slippers with a knitted shawl over her old-fashioned ''party dress." Withal, however, Mrs. Smuts seems to get on very placidly with her doughty General, who, during the War, captured most of German South Africa for the Empire...
...your issue of Feb. 11, I noticed you referring to the Prince of Wales wearing a "red" carnation when in evening dress. You called it a "joke" but it merely showed that the Prince "knows his flowers" and you don't. A red carnation is the proper flower for evening wear...
Realist: Then let her cut down on this expense and dress more simply...
Individualism:"There are various kinds and degrees of individuality in dress. The term may be applied where a man selects a style of costume which has long since gone out of fashion. It may be used where another cultivates the grotesque in garb...
...fresh, distinctive modes. Robert Henri, bright, sketchy painter of children whose eyes would pop at dolls and toy engines, whose lips would pucker wetly at lollypops, won the Temple Gold Medal for painting with his fluffy, serious Wee Woman. A lean, angular and sour ancient in a dark figured dress, called Madame du Tarte, won for Richard Lahey the Carol Beck Medal for portraiture. Bruce Moore's Black Panther, in savage, undulating stride, won the George D. Widener Memorial Gold Medal for sculpture...