Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...buyer is passing, that of the stylist beginning. But not all expensive stores are abreast of the merchandizing times. Leaders among fashion-conscious shops are Macy's (Manhattan department store), Woolworth's (5-and-10 cent chain stores...
Last week, the results of many a year of statistic-gathering were told 60 students at the fashion clinic of the Amos Parrish Co. in the Savoy Plaza Hotel, Manhattan. Among the 60 were managers of fashionable shops, buyers, stylists, representatives of a mail order house (Montgomery, Ward & Co.), reporters (The Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News). Each wanted to penetrate the mystery of fashion. Each had paid $200 for the opportunity...
...Parisian, even to the accustomed tourist, the mêlée in the Rue de la Paix was not unfamiliar. Similar scenes had been observable just a year ago, and again last February. As every true follower of fashion knows, there are two months in the year when the couturiers open their magnificent salons to the view of a favored few, display their latest triumphs of design, reveal what the well-dressed woman will wear for the next six months...
Hats. Three designs, all applied to small, close-fitting hats, share the approval of the French fashion makers. A pronounced slant downward on the right side, occasionally obscuring the vision of the right eye, is a mark of a correct hat, as is the bonnet shape, and an imitation of the French peasant's beret...
Through the salons of these internationally-known couturiers, last week, wandered the elite of Paris and of Paris visitors. But U. S. women of fashion need not despair because they were not in Paris last week. Let them but wait until fall and they will find the most classic models of Worth, the most daring of Vionnet's designs, reproduced in many a U. S. department store. Instead of paying $500 for a sports costume by Chanel, they will pay $200 or $300 for a replica of the same costume in a Manhattan shop. For Paris dressmakers have found...