Word: fabrications
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fabric of the belt depends upon the hour of the day and upon the formality and texture of the costume. The self-respecting Cliffedweller would as soon wear luminous green eyeshadow in the daytime as appear in red satin cinch for a nine a.m. class. Leather--plain polished saddle leather or colored calf--looks best with sweaters and tweeds, but a girl could conceivably branch out into monetone or even striped or polka-dotted grosgrain and possibly velveteen for daytime wear. After-five and night-life cinches encompass a staggering range of materials, from supple leathers (since sweaters...
...Fabric Keynote...
...Fabric is also a keynote this year. The ruling thought is to make wood look like cloth, cloth look like fur, and fur look like fabric. Dacron has coped the crown from rayon, nylon, et al. Poodle cloth is indistinguishable from persian lamb, and the glittering sheen of furs resembles satin more than sable...
...toothpaste. Last week, the nation's biggest dime-store chain snatched back. Near Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town, an apartment-city of some 26,000 inhabitants, F. W. Woolworth opened a self-service store where shoppers picked prepriced wares from clerkless counters, supermarket fashion, toted them in fabric baskets to wrapping and checkout counters. Customers seemed to like it, said they saved time by not having to wait for a salesgirl. Woolworth, which finds it hard to get clerks, hopes it will make it possible for existing staffs to sell more goods-and sell them faster. If it does...
...program promises to tear the social and economic fabric of the country as surely as did Mexico's revolutionary land reforms. Even before the bill was passed passions blazed in capital and countryside. Near the eastern frontier, rabble-rousing organizers of the National Peasants Union announced lists of landholders marked for expropriation, and began measuring off parcels. Infuriated small farmers, swinging machetes, seized police headquarters in the village of San José Arada, wounding two cops. In Camotán, another band hacked a union leader to death and wounded five of his backers...