Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the Chinese mind is earthbound, it is strongly drawn to magic. It sees the world inhabited by a multitude of spirits. Before a house or a temple is built, its location must be carefully considered in relation to mountain or water spirits. Children sometimes dress in striped tiger clothing to ward off evil influences. It is unlucky to meet a bald-headed man on the way to a mah-jongg party and dangerous to help a drowning man, because evil spirits might drag the rescuer down too. The aggregate of thousands of such superstitions is not transcendental or spiritual...
Kaftans & Kabuki Slippers. The result has been a quick proliferation of styles that already make the original Scott dress seem like the Model T Ford. Mars Manufacturing Co. of Asheville, N.C., is the nation's leading producer of paper dresses, sells 80,000 a week. From its basic A-line shift ($1.75), the company has expanded its line to include bell-bottom jump suits ($4), evening gowns ($5), aprons ($1.35), and men's vests ($1.99). Sterling Paper Products aims to gross $6,000,000 this year from such items as a $7.50 zebra-print pants suit...
...Nolde's earlier works, which stress religious subjects or Berlin's raucous cabarets, this rural cycle focuses on ordinary workaday existence, together with a few of the Nordic trolls and hobgoblins native to Schleswig-Holstein. Most of the pictures show pairs and groups of everyday people. Their dress is shapeless, timeless. The light is eerie. Sometimes Nolde painted the flat Schleswig countryside and the powerful sea that lurks just beyond its dikes in turbulent colors reminiscent of England's J.M.W. Turner. More often, he portrayed the country life around him: a patriarch with his clan, a farm...
...their chief appeals. It is the kind of luxury that means fabrics costing as much as $140 per yard, three-faced wools, the most expensive silks for buttonholes, and mink used as pure adornment. Valentino's prices are commensurate. They begin at $750 for a dress, range up to $5,000 for an evening gown...
...dedicating five evening gowns to her in 1961. She remains his most constant client, last year bought her pants suit from his collection. She often writes him long, glowing letters, has even been known to clap her hands, crying "Valentino, live to be 100!" while picking out a dress...