Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dallas housewives, Shreveport stenographers, Spokane waitresses, Chicago socialites?all fashion-conscious women in the U. S. were the invisible, ultimate spectators of a spectacle last week in Manhattan/s Astor Hotel. Despite the heat, a parade of mannequins marched all evening, dressed and redressed for next autumn. It was a march stolen on Paris. The fall fashion show of the Garment Retailers of America forecast the following features and trends...
Skirts. No knees, even for sportswear, which drops two inches. Four to six added inches for afternoon, twelve to 15 for evening, bringing many frocks in slanting fashion to the floor, adding trains...
...There is no dialog but plenty of noise-a monotonous scraping sound no more like the big-bellied voice of a real train than the imitation puffing that any trap-drummer can produce with a pair of wire brushes. Chaney acts well; he even walks in the stiff-shoulder fashion of old trainmen. At times he gets into the unreal story the dramatic flavor of its background. Best shot: Chaney feeling the driving-pinions, worn smooth by thousands of miles on the road, of his old engine dismantled in the shops. Charming Sinners (Paramount). Believing, probably correctly, that flattery...
...attain national prominence. Last week a street car* strike in New Orleans attained that prominence. Two strikers were killed, five trolleys were burned to the trucks, a car barn was dynamited, trackage was destroyed, switches cemented. The only other strike so far this year to "go rough" in like fashion has been at Gastonia, N. C. (see below...
...dress patterns. Civil War still a vivid memory, economy was a popular word and patterns were economical. Scotsman McCall knew how to make them, for he had once been a tailor. Soon the wife of his secretary, writing under the name of May Manton, started The Queen, eight-page fashion sheet. Along with McCall patterns, The Queen prospered in a small way. After Scotsman McCall's death in 1885 May Manton's husband, George H. Bladworth, took charge of The Queen, eventually made it McCall's Magazine...