Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spare your criticism now. Some day you may discover that the Proctors are as human as you are; so get to know them soon. Some day you may discover that there is no sure road to success and satisfaction at Harvard, that the University does not demand conformity in dress or habits or speech, that you are free within the bounds of law and decency to say and do as you wish, and that you are, to repeat a truism, in a world in little; so cherish your freedom and make your decisions. Harvard offers you all kinds of advice...
Poverty. "The poverty of the peasants is indicated by their dress as well as by their houses. Wooden shoes are worn next to bare feet by a majority of the country population. Almost all the children are barefoot. The clustering little villages are cheaply constructed, the roofs are thatched, the windows are small and sometimes are altogether absent...
...When we got to the race track I noticed a big crowd of people coming along. . . . There were stragglers at first, then thicker and thicker was the crowd of men and boys. Some were dressed in rags, some in decent white clothing, some in native Abyssinian dress with blackpeaked caps, some in costly apparel and a few in European clothes. Many were carrying rifles. Some were prisoners in chains...
...monopolizing 40% of feminine attention and boycotting other dictators of dress, the Butterick Co. and five other dress pattern concerns affiliated with it through consolidations or joint stock ownership, were prohibited by the Federal Trade Commission from selling patterns to dealers for resale at stipulated prices. The five affiliated companies: Federal Publishing, Standard Fashion, Butterick Publishing, New Idea Pattern, Designer Publishing, all of Manhattan...
Madame Alexandre Millerand, wife of the President of France: "Interviewed by the press, said I: ' It is fitting that we return now to the wearing of full dress at functions. The tuxedo will soon replace altogether the full dress for men if something is not done by hostesses to urge its abandonment. . . If the wearing of lax apparel is to be condoned at the opera, at balls, at affairs of state, then such affairs will lose their elegance and prestige...