Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time in the wheat belt, like the fishing season on the Grand Banks, the opening of the dressmaking season is, to Paris, a business event. Last week by boat, train and plane sharp-eyed buyers piled into the city to attend the official autumn & winter openings of the great dress houses, openings that came so thick & fast that exhausted buyers had scarcely time for more than a foot bath, a glass of tea and a herring between engagements all week long. At the most popular house of all, Schiaparelli, on the Place Vendôme, department store executives...
...world are now swarming daily into the Exposition's Pavilion d'Elégance, but most of the great French creators of style are a match for them. Never accustomed hitherto to showing their latest models to the vulgar public, they have created for the Exposition dresses too breathtakingly extreme, fantastic and sumptuous to be worn by one woman in a million, show them mostly on featureless-faced mannequins rough-hewn of pinkish beige plaster, some as disproportioned as surrealism. Barely practical are the clothes shown by Paris conservatives such as Alix, Worth and Lelong. Scorning plaster women...
...work all day from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m., enthused: "You Americans certainly know how to live over there in Washington where everything is finished at five in the afternoon and one can have a two hour horseback ride before it is time to dress for dinner...
...Times was considered to "carry" the Herald, which was distinctly a backstairs paper. Now the positions have been reversed: the Herald's prestige and its acceptance in the swankiest Massachusetts Avenue homes sell advertisers in the Times. Mrs. Patterson intends to make the Times her own mouthpiece, dress it in new format, give it her best writers, many of them women, and her pet features. She is no political ax-grinder, either for or against the New Deal, though personally she leans more toward the liberalism of her brother, Joe, than toward the Hearst policies...
...vigorous story of the discovery of oil in western Pennsylvania. The home-drilled well that Peter Cortlandt has rigged up behind his grandmother's house comes in the day of his wedding, spouting a geyser of oil that drenches the wedding party and turns the bride's dress black. What follows is Peter's epic fight with the head of a railroad line (Alan Hale) for control of the new industry. When the railroads boost freight rates to force the farmers to sell out their oil lands, Peter and his friends start a pipe line...