Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these past few weeks has been the elegant figure of M. Lucien Lelong, French War hero and member of that small coterie of Paris couturiers who rule the world of feminine fashion. M. Lelong has been in the U. S. frankly drumming up trade for his dresses and for his new perfume Impromptu which now shares honors with dress shields, bathing caps and fingernail polish in many a corner drugstore. An up & coming rival of M. Lelong is M. Marcel Rochas in both Paris fashions and perfume. He too is in the U. S. drumming up trade but by different...
Coach Carr has ordered his entire squad to dress for the contest, planning to use a full roster. As for the starting lineup, some doubt now exists because of a leg injury of unknown seriousness, suffered in practice yesterday by Joseph C. Bradley '39, fullback substitute for Captain Dick Powell, who was sidelined with a leg injury on the previous...
...leis, the wreaths of flowers flung around his neck when he left. They were pretty and his neck felt like that of the army officer who must dress in a tuxedo every night and eat alone with his wife...
Since all of these ladies travel in pretty much the same social league, each learned with horror that she was likely to see the dress that she had just paid at least $350 for not once but seven times. To shrill objections over the telephone Mme Schiaparelli last week had nothing whatever to say. Taking advantage of this sudden publicity, however, style pirates in Manhattan's garment centre set to work duplicating the model not seven but 700 times...
Wife, Doctor and Nurse (Twentieth Century-Fox) is an amazingly fresh version of the triangle indicated in its tired title. That any plot as old as this (most recent prior use: MGM's Between Two Women) can be given a new dress is a minor miracle of screen technique. It has been achieved by application of the dramatic law which holds that any situation becomes new if the characters involved make it inevitable. Steve (Virginia Bruce) never asked herself whether she loved her boss, Dr. Judd Lewis (Warner Baxter) until the day his young wife Ina (Loretta Young) took...